TY - JOUR
TI - On the ethnonyms Orok and Uryangkhai
AU - Janhunen, Juha
TI - On the ethnonyms Orok and Uryangkhai
AB - 
	The paper discusses the etymology of the ethnonym Orok, as used for one of the aboriginal populations of the Island of Sakhalin. It has been generally assumed that this ethnonym is connected with the Tungusic term for ‘reindeer’, especially since the Orok, also known by the name Uilta, are reindeer herders. The author demonstrates the unlike- liness of this etymology and proposes instead a connection with the widespread generic ethnonym Uryangkhai. This term was transferred on the Orok via the languages of their neighbours, the Sakhalin Ainu and the Sakhalin Ghilyak.
VL - 2014
IS - Volume 19, Issue 2
PY - 2014
SN - 1427-8219
C1 - 2084-3836
SP - 71
EP - 81
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.14.004.1647
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/on-the-ethnonyms-orok-and-uryangkhai
KW - ethnonyms.
KW - etymology
KW - Tungusic languages
KW - Orok
KW - Orochen
KW - Uryangkhai
KW - Ainu
KW - Ghilyak