Yuit

E1034885

Yuit is the self-designation of the Central Siberian Yupik people, an Indigenous group native to the Bering Strait region of Siberia and Alaska.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yuit canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
borderRegion Bering Strait ⓘ
climateZone polar climate ⓘ
subarctic climate ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
North America ⓘ
country Russian Federation ⓘ
linked to: Russia

United States of America ⓘ
culturalContinuityAcross Russia–United States border ⓘ
culturalHeritage mythology and folklore ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
culturalPractice drum dancing ⓘ
kayak use ⓘ
skin-boat (umiak) use ⓘ
throat singing ⓘ
culturalRegion Arctic ⓘ
linked to: Arctic region

Subarctic ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Eskimo–Aleut peoples ⓘ
ethnonymLanguage Central Siberian Yupik language ⓘ
exonym Central Siberian Yupik ⓘ
hasAutonym Yuit ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic alphabet ⓘ
linked to: Cyrillic script

Latin alphabet ⓘ
languageSpoken Central Siberian Yupik language ⓘ
modernReligion Russian Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
nativeToRegion Alaska ⓘ
Bering Strait region ⓘ
linked to: Bering region

Siberia ⓘ
partOf Yupik peoples ⓘ
recognizedAsIndigenousIn Russia ⓘ
United States ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup Alaskan Yupik ⓘ
linked to: Yupik languages

Inuit ⓘ
Siberian Yupik ⓘ
religion animism ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ
selfDesignationOf Central Siberian Yupik people ⓘ
traditionalEconomy subsistence economy ⓘ
traditionalHousing semi-subterranean houses ⓘ
snow houses (seasonal) ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence fishing ⓘ
gathering ⓘ
marine mammal hunting ⓘ
reindeer herding ⓘ
traditionalTerritory Chukotka Peninsula ⓘ
St. Lawrence Island ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.