Koriak

(Nymylan), the language of the Koriaks, the main population of the Koriak National Okrug. A language of the Chukchi-Kamchatka group, Koriak is spoken by about 6,100 persons (1970 census). It is subdivided into several dialects: Chavchuven, Paren, Itkan, Kamen, Apukin, Palan, and Karagin. Koriak has vowel synharmony and consonant assimilation and is an agglutinative and incorporative language. It has a multicase system of noun declension, and in its verb inflection there is a contrasting subject and subject-object conjugation. Koriak has a nominative and an ergative construction. The Koriak writing system, based on the Chavchuven dialect, was created in 1931 using the Roman alphabet; a Russian-based alphabet was introduced in 1936.

REFERENCES

Stebnitskii, S. N. “Nymylanskii (koriakskii) iazyk.” In the collection lazyki i pis’mennost’ narodov Severa, part 3. Moscow-Leningrad, 1934.
Zhukova, A. N. “Koriakskii iazyk.” In lazyki narodov SSSR, vol. 5. Moscow, 1968.
Korsakov, G. M. Nymylansko (koriaksko)-russkii slovar Moscow, 1939.
Bogoras, W. “Chukchee.” In F. Boas, Handbook of American Indian Languages. Washington, D. C, 1922.

A. N. ZHUKOVA

单词	koriak
释义	Koriak Koriak (Nymylan), the language of the Koriaks, the main population of the Koriak National Okrug. A language of the Chukchi-Kamchatka group, Koriak is spoken by about 6,100 persons (1970 census). It is subdivided into several dialects: Chavchuven, Paren, Itkan, Kamen, Apukin, Palan, and Karagin. Koriak has vowel synharmony and consonant assimilation and is an agglutinative and incorporative language. It has a multicase system of noun declension, and in its verb inflection there is a contrasting subject and subject-object conjugation. Koriak has a nominative and an ergative construction. The Koriak writing system, based on the Chavchuven dialect, was created in 1931 using the Roman alphabet; a Russian-based alphabet was introduced in 1936. REFERENCES Stebnitskii, S. N. “Nymylanskii (koriakskii) iazyk.” In the collection lazyki i pis’mennost’ narodov Severa, part 3. Moscow-Leningrad, 1934. Zhukova, A. N. “Koriakskii iazyk.” In lazyki narodov SSSR, vol. 5. Moscow, 1968. Korsakov, G. M. Nymylansko (koriaksko)-russkii slovar Moscow, 1939. Bogoras, W. “Chukchee.” In F. Boas, Handbook of American Indian Languages. Washington, D. C, 1922. A. N. ZHUKOVA
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