Apuka
The Apuka are one of the nine subdivisions of the Koryaks.{{clarify|date=October 2013}} In pre-Soviet Russia they were considered to be a distinct people. They speak their own dialect of the Koryak language. They live primarily along the coast of the Bering Sea.
Sources
- Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 12
- Olson, James S., An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) p. 37
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125085748/http://lingsib.unesco.ru/en/languages/koryak.shtml.htm Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Koryak language]
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