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My work on the Koryak was done during the months from Decem- 

 ber, 1900, to March, 1901. While Mr. Waldemar Jochelson studied 

 the ethnology of the Korj^ak on behalf of the Jesup Expedition, the 

 morphological study of the language was assigned to me on account 

 of my familiarity with the Chukchee. I left the Anadyr in Novem- 

 ber, 1900, joined Mr. Jochelson at Kamenskoye, and spent about a 

 month with him. From there I proceeded to Kamchatka and studied 

 the Kamchatka Koryak and the Kamchadal. On account of the neces- 

 sity of devoting some time to the Eskimo of Indian Point, I could not 

 devote more time to the stud}^ of these dialects. 



The Koryak is spoken in a number of dialects, which may be classed 

 in two groups, the western and the eastern. The western group 

 includes the maritime villages on Penshina Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk,* 

 some of which are the largest of the Koryak settlements, and the 

 reindeer breeders on the rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean. Here 

 belong, for instance, the villages of Qa'yilin, Cimi'tqa, and Po'qac.^ 

 The eastern group includes all the maritime Koryak of Kamchatka 

 and the villages of the Pacific shore, mainly around Alutor Bay. 

 The Kerek may form a third group, which, although situated farthest 

 to the east, is more closely related to the western branch. 



I shall call the western group "Koryak I;" the eastern group 

 "Koryak 11." Since the majority of the former group are reindeer 

 breeders who live north from the maritime villages, and, along the 

 northern border of the country, come into contact with the Chuk- 

 chee, I have elsewhere called the Koryak I the northern group; the 

 Koryak II, the southern group. 



The bulk of my Koryak material and all the texts are principally 

 from the village Kamenskoye on Penshina ba}', and also from Paren, 

 50 miles farther to the west. I have marked this material, respec- 

 tively, "Kor. Kam," and "Kor. Par." All words and forms marked 

 simply "Kor." are common to the various dialects. The chief dif- 

 ference between the dialects of Kamenskoye and Paren — both mem- 

 bers of the eastern branch — lies in the rules governing the harmony 

 of vowels. My material on the Korj^ak of Kamchatka is not exten- 

 sive. 



I See W. Jochelson, The Koryak (Ibid., vol.vi), pp.437 et seq. Leyden, E. J. Brill, 

 sibid., p. 440. See also map at end of volumes vi aad vii of the Publications of the Jesup North 

 Pacific Expedition. 



