Yugtun
E30199
Yugtun is the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken by Yup’ik people in western and southwestern Alaska.
Aliases (3)
- Yupik ×1
- Yupik language ×1
- Yup’ik Latin orthography ×1
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
→
Eskimo–Aleut language → language → |
| alternateName |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
→
Yupik →
surface form: "Yup’ik"
|
| associatedWithPeople |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
→
surface form: "Central Alaskan Yup’ik people"
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Alutiiq
→
Naukan Yupik →
surface form: "Siberian Yupik"
|
| country | United States of America → |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable → |
| geographicDistribution |
Bristol Bay
→
surface form: "Bristol Bay region"
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta → |
| hasDialects |
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
→
surface form: "General Central Yup’ik dialect"
Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect → Nunivak dialect → |
| hasGlottocode | cent2127 → |
| hasISO639-2Code | ypk → |
| hasISO639-3Code | esu → |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
English
→
Russian language →
surface form: "Russian"
|
| hasMediaIn |
educational materials
→
local newspapers and newsletters → radio broadcasts → |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
extensive verbal inflection
→
rich case system → |
| hasOrthographyStandardizedBy |
University of Alaska Fairbanks
→
surface form: "Alaska Native Language Center"
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
geminate consonants
→
vowel length contrast → |
| hasRevitalizationEfforts |
bilingual education programs in Alaska
→
community language classes → |
| languageFamily |
Eskimo–Aleut languages
→
surface form: "Eskimo–Aleut"
|
| partOf | Yupik branch of Eskimo languages → |
| region |
United States of America
→
surface form: "United States"
|
| spokenBy |
Alaska Natives
→
surface form: "Yup’ik people"
|
| spokenIn |
Alaska
→
southwestern Alaska → southwestern Alaska →
surface form: "western Alaska"
|
| subfamily |
Yupik
→
surface form: "Yupik languages"
|
| taughtAt |
University of Alaska Anchorage
→
University of Alaska Fairbanks → |
| typology |
agglutinative language
→
polysynthetic language → |
| usedAs | heritage language → |
| usedFor |
cultural and ceremonial practices
→
daily communication in Yup’ik communities → traditional storytelling → |
| wordOrder | SOV → |
| writingSystem | Latin script → |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Yupik"
this entity surface form: "Yup’ik Latin orthography"
this entity surface form: "Yupik language"