Chukchi
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Chukchis,
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Chukchi
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a member of a Paleo-Asiatic people of northeastern Siberia.
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the Chukotian language of the Chukchi people, noted for having different pronunciations for men and women.
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a member of a people of the Chukchi Peninsula
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the language of this people, related only to some of the smaller aboriginal languages of Siberia
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Gray whales in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean have faced reduced food availability in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska's coast in recent years, Calambokidis said.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
Landfast ice in the Chukchi Sea has been decreasing for decades.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
As the Chukchi Sea experiences longer periods without ice and the female and juvenile walruses spend more time resting on land, it makes them vulnerable to human and predator activity.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
A scientific journal published in 2022 reported a decrease in the ocean’s crustaceans in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas, leading to the gray whales’ malnutrition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
The barren slope stretches for three hundred miles from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean, and for more than eight hundred miles from the Chukchi to the Beaufort Sea.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
His ancestors split apart from Chukchis some 5,500 years ago, according to genetic calculations, implying that the Saqqaq people’s ancestors must have traveled across the northern edges of North America until they reached Greenland.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2010
Using his genome as a basis, a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen determined that the Saqqaq man’s closest living relatives were the Chukchis, people who live at the easternmost tip of Siberia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2010
Among the many superstitions of the Wandering Koraks and Chukchis, one of the most noticeable is their reluctance to part with a living reindeer.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
The languages of the Chukchis and Koraks have never-been reduced to writing; nor, so far as I know, do either of those tribes ever attempt to express ideas by signs or pictures.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
When fish bought from the Chukchis had been offered him in vain, he was let loose in the hole again and he never came back.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
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