Sirenik language

For the people, see Sirenik Eskimos.
Sirenik
Сиӷы́ных, Uqeghllistun
Pronunciation[siˈʁənəx]
Native toRussia
RegionBering Strait region, mixed populations in settlements Sireniki and Imtuk
EthnicitySirenik Eskimos
Extinct1997, with the death of Valentina Wye[1][2]
5 (2010)[3]
Early forms
Transcribed with Cyrillic in old monographs
New publications may appear with the Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3ysr
ysr
Glottologsire1246
ELPSirenikski
Map of Yupik settlements in Russia and St. Lawrence Island. The settlement of Sireniki is indicated with the red and yellow dot.
Sirenik is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Sirenik Yupik,[4] Sireniki Yupik[5] (also Old Sirenik or Vuteen), Sirenik, or Sirenikskiy is an extinct Eskimo–Aleut language. It was spoken in and around the village of Sireniki (Сиреники) in Chukotka Peninsula, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The language shift has been a long process, ending in total language death. In January 1997, the last native speaker of the language, a woman named Vyjye (Valentina Wye) (Russian: Выйе), died.[6][7][8] Ever since that point, the language has been extinct;[6] nowadays, all Sirenik Eskimos speak Siberian Yupik or Russian. Despite this, censuses as late as 2010 report up to 5 native speakers of Sirenik.[3]

Сиӷы́ных [siˈʁənəx] is the endonym for the eponymous settlement of Sireniki.[9][10] The endonym for the people itself is сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷий [siˈʁənəɣˈməːʁij] "Sirenikites"; the singular form is сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷа [siˈʁənəɣˈməːʁa]).[10][11]

This article is based on Menovschikov (1964),[12] with cited examples transliterated from Cyrillic transcription to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

  1. ^ "Sirenik". Archived from the original on 10 December 2012. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  2. ^ Sirenik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b "tab6.xls". gks.ru. Archived from the original on 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  4. ^ OLAC resources in and about the Sirenik Yupik language
  5. ^ Sireniki Yupik Sea-Ice Dictionary
  6. ^ a b Vakhtin 1998, p. 162.
  7. ^ Николай Вахтин [Nikolai Vakhtin] (2000). Язык сиреникских эскимосов: Тексты, грамматические и словарные материалы [The Language of the Sirenik Eskimos: Texts, Grammatical and Dictionary materials] (in Russian). Munchen: Lincom-Europa. ISBN 9783895869518. Archived from the original on 2007-09-10.
  8. ^ "ЭСКИМОСЫ" [Eskimos]. Поддержка прав коренных народов Сибири [Support for Siberian Indigenous Peoples Rights] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2007-08-30.
  9. ^ Menovshchikov 1964, p. 7.
  10. ^ a b Menovshchikov 1964, p. 195.
  11. ^ Menovshchikov 1964, p. 31.
  12. ^ Menovshchikov 1964.