Naukan Yupik

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Naukan Yupik are an Indigenous Siberian Yupik people of the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia, with a traditional coastal hunting culture and a language closely related to that of the Alutiiq.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Siberian Yupik 2
Naukan Yupik language 1
Naukanski Eskimo 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Siberian Yupik people
administrativeClassification small-numbered Indigenous peoples of the North in Russia
borderRegion Bering Strait
continent Asia
country Russia
culturalPractice drum dancing
storytelling
traditional skin-boat building
culturalRegion Arctic region
surface form: Arctic

Chukchi Peninsula
surface form: Bering Strait region
ethnicGroupOf Chukchi Peninsula
surface form: Chukotka Peninsula
governingState Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
hasAlternativeName Naukan Yupik
surface form: Naukanski Eskimo

Naukan Yupik
surface form: Naukanski Yupik
hasAutonym Nuvuqaghmiit
historicalContact Alaska Natives
surface form: Alaska Native peoples
historicalEvent relocation of Naukan village in the 1950s
historicalSettlement Naukan
language Naukan Yupik self-linksurface differs
surface form: Naukan Yupik language
languageBranch Yupik
surface form: Yupik languages
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
languageStatus endangered language
locatedIn Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
neighboringPeople Central Siberian Yupik
Chukchi people
surface form: Chukchi

Inuit
surface form: Inupiat
partOf Yupik
surface form: Siberian Yupik
relatedEthnicGroup Alutiiq
Central Siberian Yupik
religion Russian Orthodox Church
seaMammalHunted seal
walrus
whale
traditionalClothingMaterial reindeer skin
seal skin
traditionalHousing semi-subterranean houses
traditionalLifestyle coastal hunting
traditionalReligion animism
shamanism
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
marine mammal hunting
UNESCOStatus endangered Indigenous people
usesScript Cyrillic script

Referenced by (8)

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Alutiiq closelyRelatedTo Naukan Yupik
Yugtun closelyRelatedTo Naukan Yupik
this entity surface form: Siberian Yupik
Naukan Yupik hasAlternativeName Naukan Yupik
this entity surface form: Naukanski Yupik
Naukan Yupik hasAlternativeName Naukan Yupik
this entity surface form: Naukanski Eskimo
Yupik hasSubgroup Naukan Yupik
Naukan Yupik language Naukan Yupik self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Naukan Yupik language
this entity surface form: Siberian Yupik
Sugpiaq people relatedEthnicGroup Naukan Yupik
this entity surface form: Yupik peoples