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HANDBOOK OF INDIAN LANGUAGES CHUCKCHEE 



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is used by all the Koryak dialects, even those that have no dual 

 for expressing the plural. 



Chukchee and Koryak are so much alike, that the languages, are 

 mutually intelligible at least in part. On the northern border of 

 the Koryak territory a considerable amount of lexicographic bor- 

 rowing may be noticed, which extends even as far as the Anadyr 

 country. Thus we find — 



Kolyma Chukchee teggenirlcin he desires 

 Anadyr Chukchee iegge'nirlcin or gaima'tirkin 

 Korj'ak, Kamenskoye tajja'mJcm or gaima'tekin 



Of these words, the first one is common to (Chukchee and Koryak, 

 while the second is Korj-ak and is borrowed from them by the Anadyr 

 Chukchee. 



Kol3^ma Chukchee wetha' urlcin he speaks 

 Anadyr Chukchee wUka' xirliin and vanava'tirTcin 

 Koryak, Kamenskoye vetha'vekin and vanava'ttkin 

 The lexical differences between Koryak and Chukchee are consider- 

 able. Still certain Chukchee words that do not occur in the Kamen- 

 skoye dialect re-appear in other dialects, some even in remote villages 

 in the vallej^s of Kamchatka. 



On the whole, however, all branches of the Koryak, even in their 

 most distinct dialects, — like those of the Kerek near Cape Anannon on 

 Bering Sea, and of Voyampolka on the Sea of Okhotsk, — are much 

 more closely related among themselves than to the Chukchee. 



In the pronunciation of men of the Kol3'ma district many intervocalic 

 consonants are dropped (see § 13). This is not so common among 

 the men of the Anadyr Chukchee, who use both the fuller forms and 

 those with dropped consonants. Among the Kolyma people the dif- 

 ference between the pronunciation of men and that of women is so 

 regular that the use of the fuller forms by the eastern people lays 



them open to ridicule as using the speech of women. 



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