qoryak
qoryak noun: qoryak, is the phonetic transliterated word for the Koryak people, a Paleo-Siberian group indigenous to northeastern Asia and the Bering Strait in close proximity to Alaska, historically considered independent from the Slavic-Russians of Europe.
Noun
qoryak (plural qoryaks)
- Qoryak, is the phonetic transliterated word for the Koryak people, a Paleo-Siberian group indigenous to northeastern Asia and the Bering Strait in close proximity to Alaska, historically considered independent from the Slavic-Russians of Europe.
- My great-grandma was a Qoryak person during the Tsar revolution.
- "The Qoryak people live in the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula which is part of the Russian Federation. They were conquered by the Cossacks at the end of the 1600s and were then incorporated into the Russian empire. However, the tsar mainly left them alone except for he required a fur...2000, Missouri Ethnologue Collective, Hunter-Gatherers Data Sheet, Missouri University, page 1
Forms of qoryak
| plural | qoryaks |
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Origin of qoryak
Proto-Siberian -> cëx + äx (with the reindeer: deer + with) Qoryat -> qor + ak (with the reindeer: deer + with)
Words formed from qoryak
- Koryat
Questions about qoryak
- What does qoryak mean?
- Qoryak means qoryak, is the phonetic transliterated word for the Koryak people, a Paleo-Siberian group indigenous to northeastern Asia and the Bering Strait in close proximity to Alaska, historically considered independent from the Slavic-Russians of Europe.
- What part of speech is qoryak?
- Qoryak is a noun.
- What is the plural of qoryak?
- The plural of qoryak is qoryaks.
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