Central Alaskan Yup'ik language
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| Central Alaskan Yup'ik Yup'ik, Cup'ik |
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | western and southwestern Alaska | |
| Total speakers: | approximately 10,000 | |
| Language family: | Eskimo-Aleut Central Alaskan Yup'ik |
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| Writing system: | Latin | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ypk | |
| ISO 639-3: | esu | |
| 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 Central Alaskan Yup'ik.
Central Alaskan Yup'ik (also called Yupik, Yup'ik, or Central Yup'ik) is a Yupik language of the Eskimo-Aleut language group spoken in western and southwestern Alaska. Both in ethnic population and in number of speakers, Central Alaskan Yup'ik is the largest Alaska Native languages. About 10,000 of a total Central Yup'ik population about 21,000 people speak the language. Yup'ik is the first language for children in about 17 of 68 Yup'ik villages.
Central Alaskan Yup'ik has five major dialects:
- General Central Yup'ik
- Norton Sound Yup'ik
- Hooper Bay-Chevak Cup'ik
- Nunivak Cup'ik
- Egegik Yup'ik
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