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The Russian suffixes for case and gender do not occur, and all nouns 

 and adjectives are used in the nominative singular masculine. All 

 vowels are strongly marked as long, short, or obscure. 



In the following studj'^ 1 have confined myself to the main points of 

 the morphology. The description is based mainly on Chukchee and 

 on a comparison of Chukchee and the western Koryak of Kamenskoye. 

 Kamchadal has been utilized onlj'^ so far as to indicate the peculiar 

 characteristics of this dialect. 



Notes on the Koryak are indicated by a single, those on the Kam- 

 chadal by a double marginal vertical rule. Examples without refer- 

 ence are taken from field notes. 



All references for the Chukchee indicated by page and line (for in- 

 stance, 21.3) are to my Chukchee texts contained in the Publications 

 of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition; those marked R, followed by 

 page and line (for instance, R 23.5) are to my collection of texts pub- 

 lished by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. All references 

 to Koryak (marked, for instance, Kor. 27.6) are to my Koryak Texts 

 published b}" the American Ethnological Society. The following 

 previous publications on this family of languages may be mentioned: 



L. Radloff, Ueber die Sprache der Tschuktschen (Memoirs of the Imperial Acad- 

 emy of Science, St. Petersburg, 1861, Series vii, vol. iii, No. 10). 



B. r. Boropas'b, Odpaaim MaTepiajioBi> noHaMeHiio ^lyKOTCKaro ^SHKaH $ojh>k- 



jiopa, codpaHHHXb B-b KojiBiMcKOMi> OKpvrfe. Otthckte> hstj HsB-fecTift HMne- 



paTopcKofi AKa;^e^IiH HayKT> T. X. No. 3 (Mapx'b 1899). 

 [Waldemar Bogoras, Sample Text for the Study of the Chukchee Language and 



Folk-Lore, collected in the Kolyma District. Reprint from the Memoirs of 



the Imperial Academy of Sciences, vol. x, no. 3 (March, 1899).] 

 Maxepiajiiii no HsyieHiio ^yKOTCKaro HSHKa h $ojibKJiopa, co6paHHiie B-b Kojihm- 



cKOM'b oKpyrb. Ha^aaie HMrtepaTopcKoit AKa/^eMiH HavK'b. B. 1. C.-UeTep- 



6ypn, 1900. 

 [Materials for the Study of the Chukchee Language and Folk-Lore, collected in the 



Kolyma District, Part i. Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1900. 

 Chukchee Mythology (Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, vol. 



VIII, Part i). Ley den, E. J. Brill, 1910. 

 Koryak Texts (Publications of the American Ethnological Society, vol. v). Ley- 

 den, E. J. Brill, 1914. 

 Iqnacy Radlinsky, Ze zbiorow Prof. B. Dybowskiego. Slowniki Nazzeczy Lud6w 



Kamczackich, 5 parts, KrAkow, 1891-94. 



C. KpaineHHHHHKOB'b OnHcanie seisiJivi KaM^iaTKH. C.-IIeTepCypni 1819. T. 1. ii. 

 [S. Krasheninnikoff, Description of the Land Kamchatka, vols, i and ii. St. 



Petersburg, 1819.] 

 B. H. TiomoBij, Ho xsanayZtHOMy 6epery KaM^aTKH, C II. B., 1906. 

 [W. N. Tushoff, Along the Western Shore of Kamchatka. St. Petersburg, 1906.] 



