Nunivak Cup’ig
E27705
Nunivak Cup’ig is a distinct dialect of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language traditionally spoken by the indigenous Cup’ig people of Nunivak Island in Alaska.
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yupik language variety
ⓘ
dialect ⓘ |
| associatedSettlement | Mekoryuk ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
ⓘ
surface form:
General Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Hooper Bay–Chevak ⓘ
surface form:
Hooper Bay–Chevak Cup’ik
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalDomain |
spiritual and ceremonial vocabulary
ⓘ
subsistence activities terminology ⓘ |
| culturalRole | key marker of Cup’ig identity ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cup’ig ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cup’ig dialect
ⓘ
Nunivak Cupik ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
consonant length contrast ⓘ distinct phonology from General Central Yup’ik ⓘ ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ lexical differences from General Central Yup’ik ⓘ polysynthesis ⓘ postbases ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ vowel harmony ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | esu (macrolanguage Central Alaskan Yup’ik) ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Yupik ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Eskimo–Aleut languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Eskimo–Aleut
|
| linguisticDistance | not mutually intelligible with English ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | head-marking language ⓘ |
| morphologyType | suffixing ⓘ |
| partOf | Indigenous languages of Alaska ⓘ |
| phonologicalProcess |
assimilation
ⓘ
consonant cluster simplification ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV (tendency) ⓘ |
| region |
Bering Sea
ⓘ
southwestern Alaska ⓘ
surface form:
Western Alaska
|
| revitalizationEfforts |
community-based language programs
ⓘ
documentation and recording projects ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabet ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Alaska
ⓘ
Nunivak Island ⓘ |
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
|
| syntax | relatively free word order ⓘ |
| timeDepth | pre-contact period in Nunivak Island ⓘ |
| traditionalSpeakers | Cup’ig people ⓘ |
| transmissionTrend | declining intergenerational transmission ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ceremonial speech
ⓘ
oral history ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ traditional stories ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.