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Central Alaskan Yup'ik is a part of the Yupik branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It is spoken in western and southwestern Alaska in the USA. In 2010 there were about 19,000 speakers of Central Alaskan Yup'ik, which is also known as Yup'ik, Yupik or Central Yupik.
Yupik is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by 17,000 people in Western Alaska and islands off the coast of Siberia. There are several different varieties of Yupik forming what is known as a dialect chain -- each Yupik language may be understandable to speakers of a neighboring one, but not to Yupik people living farther away. Alutiiq or Sugpiaq ...
The Yupiit are the most numerous of the various Alaska Native groups and speak the Central Alaskan Yupʼik language, a member of the Eskimo–Aleut family of languages. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Yupiit population in the United States numbered over 34,000 people, of whom over 22,000 lived in Alaska.
Yupik language, the western division of the Eskimo languages, spoken in southwestern Alaska and in.
The Yup'ik language goes by various names. Since it is a geographically central member of the Yupik languages and is spoken in Alaska, the language is often referred to as Central Alaskan Yupik (for example, in Miyaoka's 2012 grammar of the language). The term Yup'ik [jupːik] is a common endonym, and is derived from /juɣ-piɣ/ "person-genuine". [8]
Central Alaskan Yup'ik consists of five distinct dialects spoken from the Seward Peninsula south to Norton Sound: General Central Yup'ik (the main dialect); Norton Sound, Hooper Bay-Chevak, Nunivak, and Egegik. In the Hooper Bay-Chevak and Nunivak dialects, the name for the language and the people is "Cup'ik" (pronounced Chup-pik).
Apr 21, 2010 · "We had to do with what we had," he said, in the Yup'ik language. "It wasn't always easy." At 82, Paul John is part of a dwindling group of Yup'ik elders who fear young Yup'iks will grow...
