Also known as: Yugtun
The largest Yupʼik language, spoken across south-western Alaska. A sister language to Inuktitut within the Eskaleut family, with around 10,000 speakers.
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Central Alaskan Yupʼik is a dialect of the Yupʼik language.
Central Alaskan Yupʼik is primarily spoken in United States.
Central Alaskan Yupʼik is part of the North America region on DialectAtlas.
Yes — Central Alaskan Yupʼik is also referred to as Yugtun.
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A highly divergent Eskaleut language of the village of Sireniki on the southern Chukchi peninsula, mutually unintelligible with its nearest Yupik relatives and sometimes treated as a third Eskimo branch. Died with its last speaker in 1997; the community now speaks Central Siberian Yupik and Russian.
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The sole non-Athabaskan member of the Athabaskan-Eyak branch of Na-Dené, spoken around the Copper River delta near Cordova, Alaska. Died with Marie Smith Jones in 2008; thoroughly documented by Michael Krauss, whose materials now support a second-language revival.
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A Chukotko-Kamchatkan language of the Chukotka Peninsula in north-eastern Siberia. Around 5,000 speakers; one of the few languages with male and female speech-form distinctions.
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A Na-Dené language of the Tlingit people of south-eastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia and Yukon. Famous for its complex consonant system, including ejective fricatives.
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The Inuit language of the Inuvialuit communities of the western Canadian Arctic. Smaller than Inuktitut and historically split between three sub-varieties: Sallirmiutun, Uummarmiutun, and Kangiryuarmiutun.
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A Chukotko-Kamchatkan language of the Kamchatka peninsula. Spoken by Koryak reindeer herders and coastal communities; sister language to Chukchi within the Chukotian sub-branch.