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Paleo-Siberian languages
Distribution of Paleo-Siberian languages.
The Koryak language is a member of the Luorawetlan family and is spoken in the far northeastern region of Siberia. Geographically, the Koryak people and their language are primarily associated with the northern half of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the southern end of the Koryak Mountains, extending into the Penzhina Basin.12345
Historically, the Koryak are considered indigenous inhabitants of the northeastern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, from which they spread eastward into these areas. Today, the region they inhabit is part of the Kamchatka kray (territory) in the Russian Far East.14