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Preferred term

essCentral Siberian Yupik  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Siberian Yupik (also known as Central Siberian Yupik, Bering Strait Yupik, Yuit, Yoit, "St. Lawrence Island Yupik" and in Russia "Chaplinski Yupik" or Yuk) is one of the four Yupik languages: * Central Siberian Yupik, * Naukan Siberian Yupik, * Central Alaskan Yupik, * Pacific Gulf Yupik. Central Siberian Yupik belongs to the Eskimo–Aleut language family. It the largest Yupik idiom spoken in Siberia, and it is spoken also on St. Lawrence Island. Its speakers, the Siberian Yupik people, are 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.

Entry terms

  • Central Siberian Yupik language
  • Yupik, Central Siberian

ISO 639-3 code

  • ess

Notation

  • ess

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ess

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