- Naukan Yupik language
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Naukan Yupik Spoken in Russian Federation Region Bering Strait region Native speakers approximately 70 (date missing) Language family Eskimo–Aleut- Eskimo
- Yupik
- Naukan Yupik
- Yupik
Writing system Cyrillic Language codes ISO 639-3 ynk Naukan Yupik language[1] or Naukan Siberian Yupik language is an Eskimo language spoken by ca. 70 persons (нывуӄаӷмит) on Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, alongside with Central Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Pacific Gulf Yupik.
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Jacobson 2005
References
- Jacobson, Steven A. (2005), "History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary", Études/Inuit/Studies 29 (1–2), http://www.erudit.org/revue/etudinuit/2005/v29/n1-2/013937ar.pdf
External links
Eskimo-Aleut languages and dialects Italics indicate extinct languagesAleut Inuit* Greenlandic Tunumiit, InuktunInuinnaqtun Inuktitut Nunatsiavummiutut, InuttitutInupiaq Inuvialuktun Kangiryuarmiutun, Natsilik, Utkuhiksalik, SiglitunYupik Alutiiq Central Alaskan Naukan Sirenik** See also; Proto-Eskimo, Proto-Eskimo-Aleut, Inuktitut writing*The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects, but while people can understand the dialects closest to them, it becomes harder the further away they are.**Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate Eskimo branch, and not under Yupik.Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
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