Koryak is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken in northeastern Siberia, mainly in the Koryak Autonomous Region in northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula, and on the adjoining mainland from the Taigonos Peninsula to the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 census, there are 1,665 speakers of Koryak, which is closely related to Chukchi.
The Koryaks call themselves by two different names: chavchu 'reindeer rearers' or 'rich in reindeer' for the traditionally nomadic reindeer-herding tribes, while the settled tribes call themselves nymylan 'resident, settler'. The word Koryak means 'at the reindeer' or 'with the reindeer', a name for the Koryak coined by a neighbouring people.
A method of writing Koryak using the Latin alphabet was devised in 1932 and based on the Chavchyvan dialect. In 1937 the Koryaks had to adopt the Cyrillic alphabet to write their language.
Download alphabet charts for Koryak (Excel)
Details provided by Wolfram Siegel and Michael Peter Füstumum
– Титэ кев'ъянвытколаӈтык, ӄэв'ӈыволайкынэтык:
Эньпичийги мучинэйги, валг'эгэ г'иг'ык!
Ӄэйлы лгимэлу нылӈын нынны Гынин;
ӄэйлы нынг'элын Лыгэнанлявагыйӈын Гынин;
то йитыӈ Гынин эв'гыйӈын нутэк тэӄын г'иг'ык.
Мучгин пичгын ёнатынвыӈ ӄыйылыйкынигын
мойкыӈ гамгачг'ылё;
то ӄынтыгэват мучгинэв' ӄэв'в'аӈ этгыйӈо,
в'йин то мочгынан мытконтыгэваньӈынав'
мучгинэв' г'эӄэлг'у;
то ӄитги Гыччи ыннин,
тит энг'элкэ нитын г'аӄаёнатгыйӈын муйык,
то ӄынӄэг'авэкэ тэмьюӈг'эӄэлг'ын-Сатана.
Source: http://marysrosaries.com/Koryak_prayers.html
Information about Koryak | Numbers | Numbers (Chavchuven dialect)
Information about the Koryak language and people
http://www.koryaks.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koryak_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Корякская_письменность
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/koryak.html
http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Koryak
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/koryaks.shtml
Koryak texts - a collection of Koryak stories translated into English
http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/kort/
Koryak-Chukchi Topical Dictionary
http://www.ling-atlas.jp/r/kydic/show/1?lang=e
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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