AYaranga (Chukchi:Яраӈы,Yarangy) is atent-liketraditional mobile home of somenomadicNorthern indigenous peoples of Russia, such asChukchi andSiberian Yupik.
A Yaranga is a cone-shaped or rounded reindeer-hide tent.[1] It is built of a light wooden frame covered withreindeer skins or canvas sewn together.
The wordyaranga comes from theChukchi word for house:jaraŋə (Cyrillic: яраӈы).[2] In Russian use, the termschum,yurt and yaranga may be used interchangeably.
It is built of a light wooden frame covered withreindeer skins sewn together. A medium-size yaranga requires about 50 skins.
A large yaranga is hard to completely heat up. There is a smaller cabin called a polog built inside it, that can be kept warm and cozy.[3]
The most numerous of theSiberian Yupik peoples, the Chaplino Eskimos (Ungazigmit) had a round, dome-shaped building for winter. Literature refers to it as a "yaranga", the same term which the Chukchi people use, but the term used in the Chaplino Eskimos' language is mengteghaq (IPA[mɨŋtˈtɨʁaq], extended Cyrillic: мыӈтыӷаӄ).[4] Its framework was made of posts.[5]Tarpaulins were used for covering the framework. The yaranga was surrounded by sod or planking around the base. There was a smaller cabin within the yaranga at the rear, used for sleeping and living. It was separated from the outer, cooler parts of the yaranga with haired reindeer skins and grass, supported by a cage-like framework. In the language of Chaplino Eskimos, it was called[aːɣra], a word borrowed from theChukchi language. Household duties were done in the larger outer room of the yaranga in front of this inner building. In winter storms, and also at night, the dogs were there. This room for economical purposes was called[naˈtɨk].[6]
There were also other types of buildings among Chaplino Eskimos:[aːwχtaq] was a modernized type,[7] and[pəˈlʲ̥uk] was used for summer.[8]
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