Naukan Yupik language

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

Naukan Yupik
Native to Russian Federation
RegionBering Strait region
Ethnicity511 Naukan people (2010)[1]
Native speakers
61, 13% of ethnic population (2021)[1]
Eskimo–Aleut
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3ynk
Glottolognauk1242
ELPNaukan Yupik[2]
Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots)

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

Morphology

Chart example of the oblique case:

Casesingulardualplural
Locativemiˠnini
Abl. / Instr.məˠˠnəˠnəˠ
Allativemunˠnunnun
Vialiskunˠkuntəkun
Aequalistunˠtuntətun

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 theses areas.

Numerals
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Notes
  1. Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Naukan Yupik.
  3. Jacobson 2005
  4. Jacobson 2005, p. 150

References
  • 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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