The Chukchi, or Chukchee, 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 all within modern Russia. They speak the Chukchi language. The Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea.
Chukchi family and their Siberian Husky, early 20th century
Representation of a Chukchi family by Louis Choris (1816)
Newlyweds Meet the Sun. Painting of Chukchi by Nikolai Getman
A Chukchi man
Chukchi, also known as Chukot, is a Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The language is closely related to Koryak. Chukchi, Koryak, Kerek, Alutor, and Itelmen form the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. There are many cultural similarities between the Chukchis and Koryaks, including economies based on reindeer herding. Both peoples refer to themselves by the endonym Luorawetlat, meaning "the real people". All of these peoples and other unrelated minorities in and around Kamchatka are known collectively as Kamchadals.
The cover of a Grade 5 Chukchi language textbook from 1996, illustrating the then new Cyrillic El with hook letter