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Koryak|ˈkɒrjæk|
Also Korak, Koriac(k), Koriak.
[Russ. Koryáki (pl.), the Koryak people.]
a. A people inhabiting the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; also, a member of this people.
b. The Palæo-Asiatic language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1780W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discoveries i. i. 3 The first expedition..was made in 1696, by sixteen Cossacs, under the command of Lucas Semænoff Morosko, who was sent against the Koriacks of the river Opooka. Ibid. 5 The peninsula of Kamtchatka..is bounded.. on the North by the country of the Koriacs. Ibid. iv. 49 In the autumn of 1754 they were joined by a Kamtchadal, and a Koriac. 1790tr. J. B. B. de Lesseps's Trav. in Kamtschatka II. 105 The idiom of the Koriacs has no affinity to that of the Kamtschadales. Ibid. 117, I recognized in his features a Koriac prince... I have long owed the reader a description of a Koriac sledge. 1832J. Bell Syst. Geogr. IV. vi. 74 The Koriaks inhabit the country between the Anadyr and the peninsula of Kamtschatka. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict. I. 989/1 Koriak,..a member of a race inhabiting northeast Siberia; also, their language, related to Kamchatkan. Koryak. 1898J. Y. Simpson Side-Lights on Siberia i. 12 Of the sub-Arctic races that inhabit the north-east of Siberia, it is sufficient to recall the names of the..Tchuktchi,..the wild Koryaks..and Yukaghirs, all differing in speech and appearance, but still related. 1907W. Jochelson in Internat. Congr. Americanists XV. 121 The subterranean Koryak house is still in use among the maritime Koryak, who are not Russianised. 1910G. Kennan Tent Life in Siberia xx. 203 The Korak numerals are:—Innín, One... Meen-ye-geet-kohin, Ten. Ibid. 204 It would be a hard day's work for a boy to explain in Korak one of the..problems in Ray's Higher Arithmetic. 1917W. Bogoras Koryak Texts 2 The Koryak dialects may be divided into two large groups,—the western branch, which includes the Maritime Koryak of Penshina Bay and also the Reindeer Koryak; and the eastern branch, which includes the Maritime Koryak of Kamchatka. Ibid. 3 The Koryak language, in contrast to the Chukchee,..is furthermore divided into several local dialects. 1928W. Jochelson Peoples of Asiatic Russ. ii. 49 The northern Kamchadal dialect..contains a considerable number of Koryak words. 1953J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools v. 45 The Fly Agaric is among the objects believed by the Koryak to be endowed with particular power. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Ling. 116 Koryak, a language, spoken by about 1,000 persons in north-eastern Asia; a member of the Chukchi-Kamchadal family of languages, classified in the Hyperborean or Palaeo-Asiatic group. |