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Naukan Yupik language

Eskimo–Aleut language spoken in Russia

Naukan Yupik
Нывуӄаӷмистун Nuvuqaghmiistun
Native to	Russian Federation
Region	Bering Strait region (orChukchi Peninsula)
Ethnicity	450 Naukan people (2010)[1]
Native speakers	60, 13% of ethnic population (2010)[2]
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Yupik Naukan Yupik
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Yupik
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Chukotka (inChukchi Peninsula)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ynk
Glottolog	nauk1242
ELP	Naukan Yupik
Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots)
East Cape Yupik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Naukan Yupik language^[3]orNaukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Нывуӄаӷмистун; Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered Eskimo language spoken by c. 70 Naukan persons (нывуӄаӷмит) on the Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, along with Central Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Pacific Gulf Yupik.

Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.^[4]

Chart example of the oblique case:

The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory gemination in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.

In proto-Eskimo, the ŋ is often dropped within morphemes except when next to ə. ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ,ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and "ana" goes to "ii" in these areas.

^ Naukan YupikatEthnologue (23rd ed., 2020)

• Jacobson, Steven A. (2005), "History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary" (PDF), Études/Inuit/Studies, 29 (1–2)
• Fortescue, M. D.; Jacobson, S. A.; Kaplan, L. D. (1994), Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center

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