Naukan Yupik language facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Naukan Yupik
Nuvuqaghmiistun
Native to	Russian Federation
Region	Bering Strait region
Ethnicity	450 Naukan people (2010)
Native speakers	60, 13% of ethnic population  (2010)e23
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Yupik Naukan Yupik
Writing system	Cyrillic
Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots)

Naukan Yupik language or Naukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered Eskimo language spoken by ca. 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.

Morphology

Chart example of the oblique case:

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.

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See also

In Spanish: Idioma naucano para niños