::: Central Siberian Yupik or Yuit ( Chaplinon and St Lawrence Island, 1, 400 speakers )

Some speakers of Siberian Yupik languages used to speak an Eskimo variant in the past, before they underwent a language shift.

These former speakers of Sirenik Eskimo language inhabited settlements Sireniki, Imtuk was already a settlement with mixed population, Sirenik Eskimos and Ungazigmit ( the latter belonging to Siberian Yupik ).

::: Alutiiq or Pacific Gulf Yupik ( 400 speakers )

::: Central Siberian Yupik or Yuit ( Chaplinon and St. Lawrence Island, 1400 speakers )

Its speakers, the Siberian Yupik people, are an indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and on St. Lawrence Island in the Alaska villages of Savoonga and Gambell.

It was replaced by a script developed by a group of native Yupik speakers and linguists at the University of Alaska.

The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that speakers of different ones cannot understand each other, although they may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages.

The name of this language is sometimes spelled Yup ’ ik because the speakers say the name of the language with an elongated ' p '; all the other languages call their language Yupik.

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.

The Alutiiq language is relatively close to that spoken by the Yupik in the Bethel, Alaska area, but is considered a distinct language with two major dialects: the Koniag dialect, spoken on the Alaska Peninsula and on Kodiak Island, and the Chugach dialect, is spoken on the southern Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound.

It is generally believed that it was during this centuries-long eastward migration that the Inuit language became distinct from the Yupik languages spoken in Western Alaska and Chukotka.

In extreme cases, groups may take an exonym as being pejorative ; one prominent example is the case of the Inuit of Canada, who are often grouped together with the linguistically related but distinct Yupik people by the exonym Eskimo.

The Yupik languages are the several distinct languages of the several Yupik ( юпик ) peoples of western and southcentral Alaska and northeastern Siberia.

Seward Peninsula dialects in Western Alaska, where much of the Inupiat culture has only been in place for perhaps less than 500 years, are greatly affected by phonological influence from the Yupik languages.

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.

While 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.

The modern day kayak most likely originated about 8, 000 years ago along the Siberian coast line by the Yupik and then transformed from the open canoe, via the Aleut and Inuit, into an enclosed kayak.

Eskimos ( or Esquimaux ) or Inuit – Yupik ( for Alaska: Inupiat – Yupik ) peoples are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia ( Russia ), across Alaska ( United States ), Canada, and Greenland.

Many words are formed from entirely different roots than in Siberian Yupik, but even the grammar has several peculiarities not only among Eskimo languages, but even compared to Aleut.

Although this name may be derived from the nearby Yupik village Enmitahin ( Chukchi for " end of the cliff ") the name appears to refer to Keniskun ( where the traders were ) or perhaps to both villages together.

The constantly-changing channel gives the village its name: Kwethluk is derived from the Yupik " Kwikli ", meaning " river ".

With that, there are two main native groups, the Yupik descendants, hailing from both Takchak and Ohogamuit, and the Inupiaq descendants, hailing from Unalakleet.

An inuksuk ( plural inuksuit ) ( from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ ; alternatively inukshuk in English or inukhuk in Inuinnaqtun ) is a stone landmark or cairn built by humans, used by the Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America.

The St. Lawrence Island Yupik people are also known for their skill in carving, mostly with materials from marine mammals ( walrus ivory and whale bone ).

Many words are formed from entirely different roots than in Siberian Yupik.

The river's name comes from the Yupik ( Eskimo ), kusquqviim, recorded by a Russian sailor in 1826.

In Alaska, about 1, 050 people from a total Siberian Yupik population of 1, 100 speak the language.

1860, d. 1924 ) was a Yupik Moravian Helper and linguistic genius who went from being an illiterate adult to inventing a series of writing systems for his native language and then producing translations of the Bible and other religious works in a period of five years.

Although the system adopted by most people for writing Yupik was the Roman-based script of Reverend Hinz, and, in about 1970, the University of Alaska system, Uyaquq's system has been studied because it may represent the same process of evolution from illiteracy to proto-writing to syllabary taken by many ancient written languages, like Chinese and Egyptian, but compressed into a period of 5 years.

The Aleut and Eskimo languages diverged about 2000 BC ; within the Eskimo classification, the Yupik languages diverged from each other and from the Inuit language about 1000 AD.

# Alutiiq ( also Pacific Gulf Yupik, Pacific Yupik, Chugach, or Sugpiaq ): is spoken from the Alaska Peninsula eastward to Prince William Sound.

Retrieved September 14, 2012, from link .</ ref >) ( singular: kamak, plural: kamiit ) are a soft boot traditionally made of reindeer skin or sealskin and were originally worn by Arctic aboriginal people, including the Inuit and Yupik.

The Yupik are indigenous or aboriginal peoples who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River ( Central Alaskan Yup ' ik ), in southern Alaska ( the Alutiiq ) and along the eastern coast of Chukotka in the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island in western Alaska ( the Siberian Yupik ).

The related Yupik languages are spoken in western and southern Alaska and Russian Far East, particularly the Diomede Islands, but is severely endangered in Russia today and is spoken only in a few villages on the Chukchi Peninsula.

The Yupik are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East.

* Siberian Yupik people, including Naukan, Chaplino, and Sirenik of the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island in western Alaska.

As of the 2000 U. S. Census, the Yupik population in the United States numbered over 24, 000, of whom over 22, 000 lived in Alaska, the vast majority in the seventy or so communities in the traditional Yup ' ik territory of western and southwestern Alaska.

The Eskimo languages are divided into two branches, the Yupik languages, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska and in easternmost Siberia, and the Inuit language, spoken in northern Alaska, in Canada, and in Greenland.

The Yupik language dialects and cultures in Alaska and eastern Siberia have evolved in place beginning with the original ( pre-Dorset ) Eskimo culture that developed in Alaska.

Today, the two main groups of Eskimos are the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and the Yupik of Central Alaska.

The term Eskimo is commonly used by those in the lower 48 and in Alaska to include both Yupik and Inupiat.

In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat ( who technically are Inuit ).

There has been some movement to use Inuit, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, representing a circumpolar population of 150, 000 Inuit and Yupik people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia, in its charter defines Inuit for use within the ICC as including " the Inupiat, Yupik ( Alaska ), Inuit, Inuvialuit ( Canada ), Kalaallit ( Greenland ) and Yupik ( Russia ).

Thus, in Alaska, Eskimo is in common usage, and is the preferred term when speaking collectively of all Inupiat and Yupik people, or of all Inuit and Yupik people throughout the world.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.