Siberian Yupik language
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| Siberian Yupik, Yuit | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States, Russian Federation | |
| Region: | Bering Strait region | |
| Total speakers: | approximately 1,350 | |
| Language family: | Eskimo-Aleut Siberian Yupik, Yuit |
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| Writing system: | Latin, Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ypk | |
| ISO 639-3: | ess | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
For the people, see Siberian Yupik.
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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