Central Alaskan Yup’ik

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Central Alaskan Yup’ik is an Indigenous Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by the Yup’ik people of western and southwestern Alaska.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eskimo–Aleut language
Indigenous language
language
ethnicity Yup’ik
glottocode cent2127
hasAlternativeName Central Yup’ik
Yugtun
hasDialects Chevak
Egegik
General Central Yup’ik
Hooper Bay
linked to: Hooper Bay–Chevak

Hooper Bay–Chevak
Kuskokwim
linked to: Kuskokwim River

Norton Sound
linked to: Bering Sea

Nunivak Cup’ig
Nunivak Island
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts community-based immersion programs
school-based Yup’ik language classes
hasLinguisticResearch dictionaries
grammar descriptions
text collections
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrast
vowel length contrast
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3Code esu
isOfficialLanguageOf no U.S. state
languageBranch Yupik
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut
region Bering Sea coast
linked to: Bering Sea

Bristol Bay region
linked to: southwestern Alaska

Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta
spokenBy Central Alaskan Yup’ik people
Yup’ik people
spokenIn Alaska
United States
southwestern Alaska
western Alaska
subclassOf Eskimo–Aleut language
Yupik language
taughtAt University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Alaska Fairbanks
usedFor ceremonial contexts
subsistence activities terminology
traditional storytelling
writingSystem Latin script

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Alaska recognizedIndigenousLanguages Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Alaska indigenousPeoples Yupik
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Central Alaskan Yup’ik subclassOf Yupik language
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Central Alaskan Yup’ik spokenBy Yup’ik people
linked to: Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Central Alaskan Yup’ik spokenBy Central Alaskan Yup’ik people
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Central Alaskan Yup’ik languageBranch Yupik
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Central Alaskan Yup’ik hasDialects General Central Yup’ik
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Central Alaskan Yup’ik ethnicity Yup’ik
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Central Alaskan Yup’ik hasAlternativeName Central Yup’ik
linked to: Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Native Americans hasSubgroup Yupik
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Alutiiq languageBranch Yupik
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Alutiiq closelyRelatedTo Central Alaskan Yupʼik
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Eskimo–Aleut languages majorLanguage Central Alaskan Yupik
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Nunivak Cup’ig subdivisionOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
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Nunivak Cup’ig closelyRelatedTo General Central Alaskan Yup’ik
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Yugtun alternateName Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Yugtun hasDialects General Central Yup’ik dialect
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Yugtun associatedWithPeople Central Alaskan Yup’ik people
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Hooper Bay–Chevak subdivisionOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Hooper Bay–Chevak partOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik language continuum
linked to: Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Hooper Bay–Chevak isDistinctFrom General Central Alaskan Yup’ik
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Hooper Bay–Chevak sharesISO639-3CodeWith Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta knownFor Central Alaskan Yup’ik communities
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Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta ethnicGroup Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta language Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
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Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta culturalRegionOf Yup’ik people
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Egegik subdivisionOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Egegik partOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik dialect continuum
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Egegik closelyRelatedTo General Central Yup’ik
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Nunivak Island populationGroup Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Nunivak Island ethnicMajority Central Alaskan Yup’ik people
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Nunivak Island hasLanguage Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
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Nunivak Island culturalRegion Yup’ik region of Alaska
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Chevak subdivisionOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
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Chevak distinctFrom General Central Alaskan Yup’ik
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Chevak hasPhonologicalDifferencesWith Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Chevak hasLexicalDifferencesWith Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Chevak hasMorphologicalDifferencesWith Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Pacific Gulf Yupik relatedTo Central Alaskan Yupik
linked to: Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Pacific Gulf Yupik distinctFrom Central Alaskan Yupik
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Alaska Natives includesLanguage Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
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Yupik speaks Central Alaskan Yupʼik language
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Yupik hasSubgroup Central Alaskan Yupʼik
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Bethel, Alaska localIndigenousLanguage Central Alaskan Yup’ik
subject linked to: Bethel
Cup’ig dialect partOfLanguage Central Alaskan Yupik language
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Nunivak Cupik relatedEthnicGroup Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Cup’ig people languageFamily Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
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Cup’ig people relatedEthnicGroup Central Alaskan Yup’ik people
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Bethel, Alaska indigenousLanguagePresence Central Alaskan Yupʼik
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Cup’ig subgroupOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik