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nivkh languagesNivkh (occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф, Nivhgu dif, ), or Gilyak, or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Nivkh people in Outer Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun (a tributary of the Amur), along the lower reaches of the Amur itself, and on the northern half of Sakhalin.
ainu peopleThe Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai.
ainu in russiaan Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai.
chukchi peopleThe Chukchi, or Chukchee (Ḷygʺoravètḷʹèt, O'ravètḷʹèt), 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.
koryaksan Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea.
nakh peoplesa group of North Caucasian peoples identified by their use of the Nakh languages and other cultural similarities.
nganasan peopleThe Nganasans (Nganasan: ŋənəhsa(nəh), ńæh) are a Uralic people of the Samoyedic branch native to the Taymyr Peninsula in north Siberia.
siberian tatarsSiberian Tatars or Sibirs are the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of Western Siberia, originating in areas stretching from somewhat east of the Ural Mountains to the Yenisey River in Russia.
khantynounA member of an indigenous ethnic group living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
khakasnounA Turkic-speaking people in South Central Siberia, who lives along the upper reach of the Yenisei River north of the Sayan Mountains.
alyutorsThe (self designation: Алутальу, or Alutal'u; Alyutor: нэмэлу, nəməlʔu;) an ethnic group (formerly classified as a subgroup of KoryaksYoung, T. Kue and Bjerregaard, Peter Health Transitions in Arctic Populations University of Toronto Press, Toronto, p. 75, , citing the Russian 2002 census) who live on the Kamchatka Peninsula and Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East.
siberian yupiknoun(ethnology) A member of a Yup'ik people residing along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula.
komi peoplesThe Komi (also ) are a Permian ethnic group who are indigenous to, and primarily inhabit a region around the basins of the Vychegda, Pechora and Kama rivers in northeastern European Russia.
itelmensan Indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
nanai peoplea Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang (Sunggari) and Wusuli River (Ussuri) on the Middle Amur Basin.
circassiansThe Circassians or Circassian people, also called Cherkess or Adyghe (Adyghe and ) are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former country in the North Caucasus.
sakhalin koreansRussian citizens and residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island, who can trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese ruling era.
kalmyks(Kalmyk: , ; ; ; archaically anglicised as Calmucks) the only Mongolian-speaking people living in Europe, residing in the easternmost part of the European Plain.
altai peopleThe Altai people, also the Altaians, are a Turkic ethnic group of indigenous peoples of Siberia mainly living in the Altai Republic, Russia.
nenets people

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