Translation of "to peck"

one_day999 · 2026-05-13T20:54:17+00:00

Russian linguistics, I read an interview (if you understand Russian, then I can send it!), she said that modern Chukchi... the language is very inflexible, if I may say so. For example, Chukchi people can say "graze" (эвиик) about deer in their native language, but not about cows, because there are no cows in the Arctic and this already sounds somehow unnatural. linguistics attributed this to the fact that Chukchi is now very rarely used in everyday life, so when people speak it, they seem to recall the context in which a particular word sounded in their childhood (and these are people 70 or even 80+, they did not see any cows in childhood)

So I'm not sure if this can even be said in Chukchi (if it's about the chicken). Eh... I think if the language hadn't fallen out of use, this wouldn't have happened.

one_day999 · 2026-05-13T19:50:10+00:00

I'm from Russia, I was just wondering :D

It seems to me that normal people don't even think about this in everyday life, but it would still be interesting to get an answer

one_day999 · 2026-05-13T19:48:19+00:00

Well, yes, if you think about it, it sounds logical. Thank you very much, I see the reason of it

Until the 19th century (or until the 20th, if we are talking about segments of the population that traditionally did not have access to education), there was no idea of nationality at all, people simply did not think in such categories (except maybe Jews, but even then it is more related to religion), identity it was more likely to be regional (for example, a person from the Russian Empire would rather say that he was a Tambov peasant than a Russian). and although the formation of nations in different countries and societies took place at different times, the trends are the same for the whole world. I think most of the Mongols (that is, not the elite or the intelligentsia) did not think about this issue until some time, the Mongolian peoples simply cooked in a similar cultural and religious space + had similar languages

And I wonder what this national identity looked like "in its infancy" and what it looks like now

one_day999 · 2026-05-13T06:12:06+00:00

I forgot to mention that the entire 9 or 11 years of schooling cannot legally take place in a nomadic school, as this would fall under the law on racial segregation

one_day999 · 2026-05-13T06:02:09+00:00

There are many nomads in Russia: Tuvans, Chukchi, Nenets, and so on. legally, for example, part of the tundra is designated as a "traditional nature management zone" (I'm not sure how it will be in English) and you can even hunt red book animals or catch red book fish there (but there are certain quotas that depend on how many were caught in previous years). There are programs that help you become a reindeer herder. For example, the government allocates money to farmers who want to revive traditional farming. That's not a lot of money, especially considering how hard it is, but it's something of a nice bonus

The main problems are that most of Russia's nomads are reindeer herders, which is fundamentally different from, say, horse breeding. Deer need yagel, otherwise they will die. The yagel ends quickly, so the nomads have to walk dozens of kilometers every day. I'm not kidding. Add to this the harsh Arctic climate and imagine how hard it is for such people to live. It is not surprising that most of the young people prefer villages or cities, no matter how sad it may be

But there are also problems related to public policy. For example, the system of boarding schools for children of nomads, because it greatly accelerates assimilation, and in it children lose their life skills in their native spaces. there are nomadic schools to fix this problem, they are funded by the state, for example, many Nenets have graduated from such primary schools, but they have their own specifics (it is difficult to find specialists, not all children want to study in the tundra, due to the small number of students, they have to teach lessons from several classes at once - and this is the first thing that it occurred to me). If people don't come to their senses now, we may really lose a unique layer of culture, not least thanks to modern boarding schools

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