Koryak

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a member of an Indigenous people of the northern Kamchatka Peninsula and neighboring parts of the Russian Far East

   A Koryak elder described the seasonal movement of reindeer herds.

2. 2
   noun

   the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language traditionally spoken by the Koryak people

   The archive preserves songs and stories recorded in Koryak.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the Koryak people, their language, or their culture

   The museum consulted Koryak communities about the exhibition.

Borrowed through Russian koryak, an external name associated in neighboring languages with reindeer. Korak is a historical English spelling; modern English normally uses Koryak, with Koryaks or unchanged Koryak as plurals.

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