Naukan people

Naukan
Нывуӄаӷмит
Nyvuqaghmit
Remains of a 2,000-year-old pit house at Naukan village
Total population
510 (2010)[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Chukotka,  Russia[2]
Languages
Russian, Naukan Yupik language, Chukchi
Religion
traditional tribal religion
Related ethnic groups
Chaplino people[1]

The Naukan, also known as the Naukanski, are a Siberian Yupik people and an Indigenous people of Siberia. They live in the Chukotka Autonomous Region of eastern Russia.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Yupik, Naukan." Ethnologue. Accessed 9 Feb 2014.
  2. ^ "Asiatic Eskimos - Settlements." Countries and Their Cultures. Accessed 9 Feb 2014.