SIBERIAN YUPIK LANGUAGE

'Siberian Yupik' (also known as 'Central Siberian Yupik', 'Bering Strait Yupik', 'Yuit', 'Yoit', or 'Yuk') is the language of the Siberian Yupik people, an indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and on St. Lawrence Island in the Alaska villages of Savoonga and Gambell. Siberian Yupik is a Yupik language of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages.
In Alaska, about 1,050 of a total Siberian Yupik population of 1,100 speak the language. in Russia, about 300 of an ethnic population of 1,200 to 1,500 speak the language, for a total of about 1,350 speakers.

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Subgroups

Debated classifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Subgroups

Chaplinski (the largest Yupik language of Siberia, the second one being Naukanski) is named after Ungazik (Chaplino), a toponym. The word ^[1] (plural ^[2]Menovshchikov 1962:1) means "Ungazik inhabitant(s)". People speaking this language live in several settlements in south-eastern parts of Chukchi PeninsulaEndangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka by Nikolai Vakhtin (among others Provideniya, Uelkal, Sireniki), also on Wrangel Island and Anadyr city, Novoye Chaplino.Asian Eskimo Language by Endangered languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia According to another terminology, these people speak Chaplinski, and Ungazigmit people speak one of its dialects, alongside with other dialects spoken by Avatmit, Imtugmit, Kigwagmit — and these can be divided further into even smaller dialects.
Naukanski, the second largest Yupik language spoken in Siberia, is spoken in settlements Uelen, Lorino, Lavrentiya, Provideniya.

Debated classifications

Also Sireniksi was an Eskimo language, once spoken in Siberia. It had many pecuiarities. Sometimes it is classified as not belonging to the Yupik branch at all, thus forming (in itself) a standalone third branch of Eskimo languages (alongside with Inuit and Yupik). Its pecularities may be the result of a supposed long isolation from other Eskimo goups in the past.^[3]
Sirenikski went extinct in 1997.Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka by Nikolai VakhtinLinguist List's description about Nikolai Vakhtin's book: ''The Old Sirinek Language: Texts, Lexicon, Grammatical Notes''. The author's untransliterated (original) name is “Н.Б. Вахтин”.Support for Siberian Indigenous Peoples Rights (Поддержка прав коренных народов Сибири) — see the section on Eskimos

References

★ Menovshchikov, G.A.: Grammar of the language of Asian Eskimos. Vol. I. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow • Leningrad, 1962. Original data: Г.А. Меновщиков: Грамматиκа языка азиатских эскимосов. Часть первая. Академия Наук СССР. Москва • Ленинград, 1962.

★ Menoščikov, G.A. (the same author as above!): Popular Conceptions, Religious Beliefs and Rites of the Asiatic Eskimoes. Published in Diószegi, Vilmos et Hoppál, Mihály: Folk Beliefs and Shamanistic Traditions in Siberia. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1968, 1996.

★ de Reuse, Willem J. (1994). ''Siberian Yupik Eskimo: The language and its contacts with Chukchi''. Studies in indigenous languages of the Americas. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 0-87480-397-7.

★ Rubcova, E.S.: Materials on the Language and Folklore of the Eskimoes, Vol. I, Chaplino Dialect. Academy of Sciences of the USSR
★ Leningrad, 1954. Original data: Е.С. Рубцова: Материалы по языку и фольклору эскимосов (чаплинский диалект). Академия Наук СССР. Москва
★ Ленинград, 1954.

Notes

1. Menovshchikov 1962:89
2. Rubcova 1954:220,238,370 (tale examples)
3. Menovshchikov 1962:11

Bibliography

★ Menovshchikov, G.A.: Language of Sirenik Eskimos. Phonetics, morphology, texts and vocabulary. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow • Leningrad, 1964. Original data: Г.А. Меновщиков: Язык сиреникских эскимосов. Фонетика, очерк морфологии, тексты и словарь. Академия Наук СССР. Институт языкознания. Москва • Ленинград, 1964

★ Menovshchikov, G.A.: Grammar of the language of Asian Eskimos. Vol. I. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow • Leningrad, 1962. Original data: Г.А. Меновщиков: Грамматиκа языка азиатских эскимосов. Часть первая. Академия Наук СССР. Москва • Ленинград, 1962.

★ Rubcova, E. S. (1954). Materials on the Language and Folklore of the Eskimos (Vol. I, Chaplino Dialect). Moscow • Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Original data: Рубцова, Е. С. (1954). Материалы по языку и фольклору эскимосов (чаплинский диалект). Москва • Ленинград: Академия Наук СССР.

External links

★ Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka by Nikolai Vakhtin