Chukchi people

Chukchi
ԓыгъоравэтԓьэт, о'равэтԓьэт
Luoravetlan
	Chukchi family and their Siberian Husky, early 20th century
Total population
	16,241
Regions with significant populations
Russia	16,200
Chukotka	13,292
Ukraine	30
Estonia	11
Languages
	Russian, Chukchi
Religion
	Shamanism, Russian Orthodoxy
Related ethnic groups
	other Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples

The Chukchi, or Chukchee (Chukot: Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэт, О'равэтԓьэт, Ḷygʺoravètḷʹèt, O'ravètḷʹèt), are a Siberian ethnic group native to the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean^[4] all within modern Russia. They speak the Chukchi language. The Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea.

According to several studies on genomic research conduct from 2014 to 2018, the Chukchi are the closest Asian relatives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as of the Ainu people, being the descendants of settlers who neither crossed the Bering Strait nor settled the Japanese archipelago.^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b "Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^ State statistics committee of Ukraine – National composition of population, 2001 census. Ukrainian Federal State Statistic Service
^ RL0428: Rahvastik rahvuse, soo ja elukoha järgi, 31. detsember 2011. Statistics Estonia
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chukchi" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 323.
^ Reich, David (2018). Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. New York: Pantheon Books.
^ Kura, Kenya; Armstrong, Elijah L.; Templer, Donald I. (1 May 2014). "Cognitive function among the Ainu people". Intelligence. 44: 149–154. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2014.04.001. ISSN 0160-2896.

[census2021-1] "Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 30 December 2022.

[2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua-2] State statistics committee of Ukraine – National composition of population, 2001 census. Ukrainian Federal State Statistic Service

[3] RL0428: Rahvastik rahvuse, soo ja elukoha järgi, 31. detsember 2011. Statistics Estonia

[4] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chukchi" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 323.

[5] Reich, David (2018). Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past. New York: Pantheon Books.

[6] Kura, Kenya; Armstrong, Elijah L.; Templer, Donald I. (1 May 2014). "Cognitive function among the Ainu people". Intelligence. 44: 149–154. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2014.04.001. ISSN 0160-2896.

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