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زبان چوکچی

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زبان چوکچی

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Also known as Chukot, Ləɣ'orawetl'at, ckt, Chukchi language

Palaeosiberian language

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Chukchi is a language spoken by the Chukchi people in the far northeastern region of Russia, near the Arctic Ocean. It is one of the Paleosiberian languages, a group of indigenous languages with unclear relationships to other major language families, making it linguistically significant for understanding human migration and language diversity in remote Arctic regions.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Chukotkan
Country
Russia
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number of speakers, writers, or signers
5100
writing system
Cyrillic script
Wikimedia language code
ckt
indigenous to
Sakha
topic's main category
Category:Chukchi language
linguistic typology
polysynthetic language
short name
чукотский
native label
Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн йиԓыйиԓ
Commons category
Chukchi language
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