chukchi in English

noun
1
a member of an indigenous people of extreme northeastern Siberia.
The trek, by the way, was to meet the Chukchis in Siberia, who live the way their ancestors did 20,000 years ago.
2
the language of the Chukchi, which belongs to a small, isolated language family.
Since the 1950s, the most famous Chukchi writer has been Yuri Rytkheu, whose poems, novels, and short stories are written in both Chukchi and Russian.
adjective
1
relating to the Chukchi or their language.
He has traveled the world, collecting blood samples from people of far-flung cultures: Aborigines in Australia, the Chukchi tundra dwellers of Siberia, farmers in the hills of Afghanistan, and nomads in the deserts of Africa.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "chukchi" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "chukchi", or refer to the context using the word "chukchi" in the English Dictionary.

1. Pejorism Befanned labyrinthodontoid Aglossa hennaed overindustrialization footrope phonematics Chukchi tourniquets

2. The Chukchi Sea has very few islands compared to other seas of the Arctic.

3. Alaska whalers take Bowheads from protected stocks that number about 10,000 animals and range in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

4. Ambon has four main goals: To close current gaps in taxonomic and spatial coverage in biodiversity observations on the Chukchi shelf.

5. Ambon field region is located on the Chukchi Sea continental shelf in the US Arctic as a region exposed to climatic changes and anthropogenic influences

6. But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.

7. Ambifixation is instantiated by Chukchi, in which distributive numerals are formed by application of em- -yut (or variant thereof), as in em-ŋire-yut from ŋire 'two' (Skorik 1961: 397-399).

8. The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) (Greenlandic: Inuit Issittormiut Siunnersuisooqatigiiffiat), formerly Inuit Circumpolar Conference, is a multinational non-governmental organization (NGO) and indigenous peoples' organization (IPO) representing the 180,000 Inuit, Yupik, and Chukchi peoples (often referred to as Eskimo) living in Alaska

9. Aleut (əlo͞ot`, ăl`ēo͞ot'), native inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands and W Alaska.Like the Eskimo Eskimo, a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia.

10. Definition of auklet : any of several small seabirds (especially genera Aethia and Ptychorhamphus) of the alcid family that occur along North Pacific coasts Examples of auklet in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Plankton-eating Auklets, for instance, increased in the northern Bering Sea in 2017 and 2018, but declined in the Chukchi Sea.