Central Alaskan Yup'ik language

Central Alaskan Yup'ik Yup'ik, Cup'ik
Spoken in:	United States
Region:	western and southwestern Alaska
Total speakers:	approximately 10,000
Language family:	Eskimo-Aleut Central Alaskan Yup'ik
Writing system:	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`ypk`
ISO 639-3:	`esu`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

For the people, see Yup'ik.

Central Alaskan Yup'ik (also called Yupik, Yup'ik, or Central Yup'ik) is a Yupik language of the Eskimo-Aleut language group spoken in western and southwestern Alaska. Both in ethnic population and in number of speakers, Central Alaskan Yup'ik is the largest of the languages spoken by Alaska Natives. About 10,000 of the about 21,000 Central Yup'ik population speaks the language. Yup'ik is the first language for children in about 17 of the 68 Yup'ik villages.

Central Alaskan Yup'ik has five major dialects:

General Central Yup'ik
Norton Sound Yup'ik
Hooper Bay-Chevak Cup'ik
Nunivak Cup'ik
Egegik Yup'ik

External links

Alaska Native Language Center: Central Alaskan Yup'ik

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