Naukan Yupik | |
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Нывуӄаӷмистун Nuvuqaghmiistun | |
Native to | Russian Federation |
Region | Bering Strait region (or Chukchi Peninsula) |
Ethnicity | 450 Naukan people (2010)[1] |
Native speakers | 60, 13% of ethnic population (2010)[2] |
Early forms | |
Cyrillic | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Russia |
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] 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]