Editing Chukchi language (section)

== Usage ==
Many Chukchis use the language as their primary means of communication both within the family and while engaged in their traditional pastoral economic activity (reindeer herding). The language is also used in media (including [[radio]] and [[TV]] translations) and some [[business]] activities. However, Russian is increasingly used as the primary means of business and administrative communication, in addition to behaving as a [[lingua franca]] in territories inhabited by non-Chukchis such as Koryaks and Yakuts. Over the past few decades, fewer and fewer Chukchi children have been learning Chukchi as a native language. Almost all Chukchis speak Russian, although some have a lesser command than others. Chukchi language is used as a primary language of instruction in [[elementary school]]; the rest of secondary education is done in Russian with Chukchi taught as a subject.

A Chukchi writer, [[Yuri Rytkheu]] (1930–2008), has earned a measure of renown in both Russia and Western Europe, although much of his published work was written in Russian, rather than Chukchi. Chukchi poet [[Antonina Kymytval]] wrote in her native language.