Naukan Yupik language

Naukan Yupik
Native to	Russian Federation
Region	Bering Strait region
Ethnicity	450 Naukan people (2010)^[1]
Native speakers	60 (2010)^[1]
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Yupik Naukan Yupik
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ynk`
Glottolog	`nauk1242`^[2]
Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots)

Naukan Yupik language^[3] or Naukan Siberian Yupik language is an 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.

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

Morphology

Chart example of the oblique case:

Case	singular	dual	plural
Locative	mi	ˠni	ni
Abl. / Instr.	məˠ	ˠnəˠ	nəˠ
Allative	mun	ˠnun	nun
Vialis	kun	ˠkun	təkun
Aequalis	tun	ˠtun	tətun

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

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
one	two	three	four	five	six	seven	eight	nine	ten	eleven	twelve	thirteen	fourteen	fifteen	sixteen	seventeen	eighteen	nineteen	twenty
ataasiq	maalghut	pingayut	sitamat	tallimat	aghvinelek	maalghugneng aghvinelek	pingayuneng aghvinelek	qulngughutngilnguq	qulmeng	atghanelek	maalghugneng atghanelek	pingayuneng atghanelek	akimiaghutngilnguq	akimiaq	akimiaq ataasimeng	akimiaq maalghugneng	akimiaq pingayuneng	yuinaghutngilnguq	yuinaq

Notes

1 2 Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Naukan Yupik". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Jacobson 2005
↑ 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

Eskimo–Aleut languages and dialects

Aleut	Aleut

Inuit¹	Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktun Inuinnaqtun (disputed) Kangiryuarmiutun Inuktitut North Baffin (disputed) Inuttitut Inupiaq (Iñupiaq Braille) Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Inuvialuktun Aivilik Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik North Baffin (disputed) Siglitun Utkuhiksalik

Yupik	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik²

See also	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo-Aleut Inuktitut syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Yugtun script

Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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