Koryak

[ kawr-yak ]

noun

, plural Kor·yaks, (especially collectively) Kor·yak

1. a member of a Paleo-Asiatic people of northeastern Siberia.
2. the Chukotian language of the Koryak people, closely related to Chukchi.

Example Sentences

In the traditional-dance group she joins, she meets a Koryak boy who complains about how much more avidly the media have covered the case of the Golosovskaya sisters than it did the disappearance of an Even girl from Esso, three years earlier.

From The New Yorker

After four long days, the caravan at last arrived at the scene Kryachko had described: a trickle of frigid water winding through strange blue-green clay in the foothills of the Koryak Mountains.

From Scientific American

In 1985, Razin had scientifically reported and characterized the only other genuine example of khatyrkite known to exist — the “holotype,” or world standard, which was discovered near the Koryak Mountains in far eastern Russia and is kept in a museum in St. Petersburg.

From Scientific American

Kiev police chief Valery Koryak admitted that the "police did not come out of it looking good," but argued that missiles had been thrown at the police by some demonstrators.

From BBC

In 2009, Steinhardt and Luca Bindi at the University of Florence in Italy identified them in a tiny rock sample thought to be from the Koryak mountains in the far east of Russia.

From Reuters