Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages

Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages

The Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi–Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia. Its speakers are indigenous hunter-gatherers and reindeer-herders.

While the family is sometimes grouped typologically and geographically as Paleo-Siberian, no external genetic relationship has been widely accepted as proven. The most popular such proposals have been for links with Eskimo–Aleut, either alone or in the context of a wider grouping.

Read more about Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages:  Alternate Names, Languages of The Family, Relation To Other Language Families

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