Naukan Yupik language
| Naukan Yupik | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Russian Federation |
| Region | Bering Strait region |
Native speakers | 510 (2010 census)[1] |
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Eskimo–Aleut
| |
| Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ynk |
Naukan Yupik language[2] 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.[2]
Language Morphology: Chart example of the Oblique Case:
| Header text | S. | P. | D. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locative | mi | ni | ˠni |
| Abl. / Instr. | məˠ | nəˠ | ˠnəˠ |
| Allative | mun | nun | ˠnun |
| Vialis | kun | təkun | ˠkun |
| Aequalis | tun | tətun | ˠtun |
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory gemination in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, the ŋ is often dropped within morphemes except when next to ə. ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ,ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and "ana" goes to "ii" in theses areas.
Notes
- ↑ Naukan Yupik reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jacobson 2005
Fortescue, M. D., Jacobson, S. A., & Kaplan, L. D. (1994). Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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)
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