Re: Koriak (Koryak)
SHARON L RYCKMAN (lnslr@aurora.alaska.edu)
Tue, 1 Nov 1994 09:36:00 -0900
Good morning, Alexander. In reference to your quest I thought I would
recommend my daughter, Darlene Orr, who lives in Nome, Alaska and
teaches Russian and our native tongue - Siberian Yupik which is spoken
over on St. Lawrence Island and the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia. A
lot of our language is borrowed from the Chukchi. She is a linguist
and has been over to Russia many times and just recently came back
from spending the summer in Yakutsk (also just came back from a follow-
up trip over there). I also speak our native language but do not have
the extensive linguistic ability. Her vax call letters are NNDJO. Hope
this will help. She is the only American, I believe, that is fluent in
these languages professionally. Enta.
[ I assume Sharon means that Darlene's address is "nndjo@aurora.alaska.edu"
--Gary ]