Chukchi
Americannoun
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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.
noun
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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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Elsewhere, confirmed losses from indigenous groups include 201 Nenets, 96 Chukchi, 77 Khanty, 30 Koryaks and seven Inuit.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 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
During the summer months, they feed on a smorgasbord of bottom-dwelling invertebrates, such as shrimp-like copepods, that flourish in the mud and sand of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024
Point Hope, with a population of about 675, was built on a triangular spit surrounded by a large inlet and the Chukchi and Arctic oceans.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 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
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