Yugtun

E30199

Yugtun is the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken by Yup’ik people in western and southwestern Alaska.


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.

Aleut relatedGroup Yugtun
this entity surface form: "Yupik"
this entity surface form: "Yup’ik Latin orthography"
Alutiiq subclassOf Yugtun
this entity surface form: "Yupik language"

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