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US
/ˈtʃuktʃi/
]
NOUN
- an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women
- a member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula
How To Use Chukchi In A Sentence
- For example, a profile of the fugacity (partial pressure corrected for the fact that the gas is not ideal) of CO2 (f CO2) shows that Pacific-origin waters below 50 m in Canada Basin are oversaturated due to their origin in the productive Bering/Chukchi Seas (see Fig. 9.34). Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
- Many Nostraticists wrongly connect it to a seemingly identical first person pronoun ɣem in a Siberian language called Chukchi eg. The origin of Indo-European ego
- Chukchi men drive their reindeer in search of vegetation and travel to the edge of the taiga to gather firewood, fish, and hunt sea mammals.
- Shell has been at the forefront of plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
- The lawsuit filed in U. S. District Court in Anchorage claims that federal officials violated laws designed to protect the animals and their sensitive habitat in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea.
- But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
- In Russia, the Chukchi are the standard target but they do get their revenge: Archive 2008-07-01
- Schools were established to instruct students in everything from Ukrainian and Kirghiz to Evenk and Chukchi. The Return
- History will tell you that at one time the Russian forces were engaged by the Chukchi, that is a group of native people that are in far Siberia. Development Along the Polar Seas
- More fully enclosed lagoons and inlets, like Peard Bay and Wainwright Inlet on the Chukchi Sea coast, are less susceptible to influxes of high-salinity water from offshore.