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The four Yupik languages, including Alutiiq ( Sugpiaq ), Central Alaskan Yup ' ik, Naukan ( Naukanski ), and Siberian Yupik are distinct languages with phonological, morphological, and lexical differences, and demonstrating limited mutual intelligibility.

Additionally, both Alutiiq and Central Yup ' ik have considerable dialect diversity.

The northernmost Yupik languages — Siberian Yupik and Naukanski Yupik — are linguistically only slightly closer to Inuit than is Alutiiq, which is the southernmost of the Yupik languages.

Although the grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically, and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

Even the dialectal differences within Alutiiq and Central Alaskan Yup ' ik sometimes are relatively great for locations that are relatively close geographically.