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  • proper noun uncountable an indigenous people in Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
  • proper noun countable A person speaking Koryak.

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Examples

  • This time, Aquaman calls Koryak a bastard before learning Koryak is his son.

    The Comic Treadmill 2009

  • There are also some Koryak people from the north, also reindeer herders.

    Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation 2008

  • A new villain is introduced, Narwhal, and he is astonishingly powerful, with hints we should recognize him from elsewhere my money is on Koryak.

    Comic musings for 21 March Fred Perry 2007

  • A new villain is introduced, Narwhal, and he is astonishingly powerful, with hints we should recognize him from elsewhere my money is on Koryak.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Fred Perry 2007

  • It was originally thought that the Paleo-Siberian languages Koryak, Yukaghir and Chukchi might be closely related to many of the American Indian languages.

    languagehat.com: MINORITY LANGUAGES OF RUSSIA. 2005

  • For example, Chukchi is an early cousin of Eskimo and Aleut (which appear to have links to both Ural-Altaic and Indo-European) while Yukaghir turns out to be a distant relative of Hungarian and Finnish (Uralic), ditto Koryak.

    languagehat.com: MINORITY LANGUAGES OF RUSSIA. 2005

  • The scientific names of all of the Pacific salmon and rainbow trout are derived in a roundabout way from the common names used for these species by the Koryak ethnic group, the native people of Kamchatka.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The species name tshawytscha “cha-vee-cha” came about in the same roundabout way as the other scientific names for the Pacific salmon: from the Koryak languages of the Kamchatka Peninsula, to German, to Russian, to English and French, and finally a Latinized species name.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The scientific name, nerka, derived in a roundabout way from the Koryak languages of the people of the Kamchatka Peninsula, now part of the Russian Federation.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Steller recorded the common names used by native people, in phonetic translations from Koryak into German.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

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