Social:Naukan Yupik language

Short description: Eskimo–Aleut language spoken in Russia

Naukan Yupik
Нывуӄаӷмистун Nuvuqaghmiistun
Native to	Russia
Region	Bering Strait region (or Chukchi Peninsula)
Ethnicity	450 Naukan people (2010)
Native speakers	60, 13% of ethnic population (2010)
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Yupik Naukan Yupik
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Yupik
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia Template:Country data Chukotka (in Chukchi Peninsula)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ynk
Glottolog	nauk1242
Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots)
East Cape Yupik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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

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 these areas.

Numerals

1. ataasiq
2. maalghut
3. pingayut
4. sitamat
5. tallimat
6. aghvinelek
7. maalghugneng aghvinelek
8. pingayuneng aghvinelek
9. qulngughutngilnguq
10. qulmeng
11. atghanelek
12. maalghugneng atghanelek
13. pingayuneng atghanelek
14. akimiaghutngilnguq
15. akimiaq
16. akimiaq ataasimeng
17. akimiaq maalghugneng
18. akimiaq pingayuneng
19. yuinaghutngilnguq
20. yuinaq

References

• Jacobson, Steven A. (2005), "History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary", Études/Inuit/Studies 29 (1–2), http://www.erudit.org/revue/etudinuit/2005/v29/n1-2/013937ar.pdf 
• Fortescue, M. D.; Jacobson, S. A.; Kaplan, L. D. (1994), Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center