Naukan Yupik language

Naukan Yupik
Нывуӄаӷмистун
Nuvuqaghmiistun
Native to Russian Federation
RegionBering Strait region (or Chukchi Peninsula)
Ethnicity450 Naukan people (2010)[1]
Native speakers
60, 13% of ethnic population (2010)[2]
Eskaleut
Early forms
Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3ynk
Glottolognauk1242
ELPNaukan 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] or Naukan 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]

  1. ^ Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Jacobson 2005
  4. ^ Jacobson 2005, p. 150