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