Egegik

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Egegik is a dialect of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language traditionally spoken in the Egegik region of southwestern Alaska.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Egegik region 1

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik dialect
dialect
closelyRelatedTo Central Alaskan Yup’ik
surface form: General Central Yup’ik

Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect
Yupik
surface form: Nunivak Central Yup’ik
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endangeredStatus severely endangered
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative structure
ergative–absolutive alignment (as in Central Alaskan Yup’ik)
polysynthetic morphology
postbases (derivational suffixes)
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length distinctions (as in Central Alaskan Yup’ik)
vowel length distinctions (as in Central Alaskan Yup’ik)
hasWordOrder flexible word order
historicalRegion Bristol Bay
surface form: Bristol Bay area
languageBranch Yupik
surface form: Yupik languages
languageCodeStandard none (no separate ISO 639-3 code; included under Central Alaskan Yup’ik)
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
partOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik
surface form: Central Alaskan Yup’ik dialect continuum
regionType Alaska
revitalizationStatus subject of language documentation and revitalization efforts within Central Alaskan Yup’ik programs
spokenBy Yup’ik people in the Egegik area
spokenIn Egegik self-linksurface differs
surface form: Egegik region

southwestern Alaska
subdivisionOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik
traditionalLanguageOf Egegik people
typicalBasicWordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb)
usedFor oral tradition
subsistence-related vocabulary (fishing, hunting, gathering)
traditional storytelling
writingSystem Latin script

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Egegik spokenIn Egegik self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Egegik region