Sirenik Eskimos

For the language, see Sirenik language.
Sirenik Eskimos
Sirenik Yupik: сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷий
Regions with significant populations
Sireniki, Russia
Languages
Siberian Yupik, Russian, formerly Sirenik
Religion
formerly shamanism
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Sirenik or Sireniki are former speakers of a divergent Eskimo-Aleut language in Siberia, before its extinction. The total language death of this language means that now the cultural identity of Sirenik Eskimos is maintained through other aspects: slight dialectal difference in the adopted Siberian Yupik language;[1] sense of place,[2] including appreciation of the antiquity of their settlement Sirenik.[1]

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  2. ^ Binns n.d.: 1