Yupik (disambiguation)
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Yupik may refer to:
Yup'ik (with apostrophe) refers specifically to:
- The Yupik peoples in general
- The Yupik languages in general
- The Siberian Yupik people
- The Siberian Yupik languageSiberian Yupik languageSiberian Yupik is one of the four Yupik languages:* Central Siberian Yupik,...
(also known as Yuit or St. Lawrence Island Eskimo)
Yup'ik (with apostrophe) refers specifically to:
- The Central Alaskan Yup'ik peopleCentral Alaskan Yup'ik peopleThe Yup'ik people , are an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska...
of western and southwestern Alaska who are speakers of Central Yup'ik - The Central Alaskan Yup'ik languageCentral Alaskan Yup'ik languageCentral Alaskan Yup'ik or just Yup'ik is a Yupik language of the Eskimo language family, in turn a member 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 of the languages...
spoken in western and southwestern Alaska - The Yup'ik syllabary, also known as the Yugtun scriptYugtun scriptThe Yugtun or Alaska script is a syllabary invented around the year 1900 by Uyaquk to write the Yugtun dialect of Central Alaskan Yup'ik. Uyaquk, who was monolingual in Yup'ik, initially used indigenous pictograms as a form of proto-writing that served as a mnemonic in preaching the Bible...