A reindeer-herding group of nomads in eastern
Siberia
occupying a wide neck of land between the Sea of
Okhotsk
on the west and the
Bering[?] Sea on the east. To the north
are their close relatives, the
Chukchi in the
Chukchi
peninsula and, to the south, the distantly related
Kamchadal
on the peninsula of
Kamchatka. Koryak and its dialect,
Alyutor, are linguistically very close to
Chukchi.