qoryak
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Qoryak, is the phonetic transliterated word for the Koryak people, a Paleo-Siberian group indigenous to northeastern Asia and the Bering Strait in close proximity to Alaska, historically considered independent from the Slavic-Russians of Europe.
Example Sentences
- "My great-grandma was a Qoryak person during the Tsar revolution."
- ""The Qoryak people live in the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula which is part of the Russian Federation. They were conquered by the Cossacks at the end of the 1600s and were then incorporated into the Russian empire. However, the tsar mainly left them alone except for he required a fur tribute from all adult males and some transportation services.""
Etymology
Inflected Forms
qoryaks (plural)
Derived Forms
Koryat