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
In the Chukchi, this change reflects both later ice formation and earlier breakup.
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
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
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
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
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
The Wandering Chukchis, who visited us in the greatest numbers, were evidently the most powerful tribe in north-eastern Siberia, and impressed us very favourably with their general appearance and behaviour.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
The ice-pack became heavier in all directions, and by October 10 the Chukchis were able to come out on foot to the vessel.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
Both Koraks and Chukchis count by fives instead of tens, a peculiarity which is also noticeable in the language of the Co-Yukons in Alaska.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
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