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Yupik language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Yupik languages are in the family of Eskimo-Aleut languages. The Yupik languages were not written until the arrival of Europeans around the beginning of the 19th century. The name of this language is sometimes spelled Yup’ik because the speakers say the name of the language with an elongated 'p'; all the other languages call their language Yupik. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yupik_language   (824 words)

White Dove's Native American Indian Site Eskimo (Yupik.Inupiat/inuit) The Yupik language includes five distinct sublanguages or dialects, of which these are represented in Alaska: Siberian Yupik, on St. Lawrence Island and the Siberian coast; Central Yupik, in southwestern Alaska; and Alutiiq, in the northern Pacific area (Kodiak Island and Prince William Sound). The Yupik Eskimo formerly celebrated the Bladder Feast, which was a propitiation and a demonstration of respect for the seals caught during the year. The Siberian Yupik communities on St. Lawrence Island, where larger patrilineal descent groups function as political and economic units, is an exception to this Eskimo pattern. users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/eskimo-yupik-inupiat-inuit.html   (2208 words)

Central Yup'ik and the Schools Yup'ik also has several hundred loan words from Russian, but these are all totally integrated into the language in that their phonology has become totally Yup'ik, though they still stand out, to the experienced ear, from nonloan words. It seems certain that Eskimo-Aleut is not related to any other Native American (Indian) language, and though attempts have been made to link Eskimo-Aleut to various Siberian language families and even to Indo-European (the family to which English belongs), such theories are highly speculative. Layered over the original pre-contact Yup'ik Eskimo culture is a stratum of early nineteenth-century Euro-American Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic. www.alaskool.org /language/central_yupik/yupik.html   (9017 words)

Yupik language, alphabet and pronunciation The Yupik languages belong to the Yupik branch of the Eskimo language family. In Siberia a method of writing Yupik with the Cyrillic languages was developed by scholars, but those Yupik who can write tend to write in Russian. Yupik is written with the Latin alphabet in Alaska and with the Cyrillic alphabet in Siberia. www.omniglot.com /writing/yupik.htm   (188 words)

Yupik The word Yup'ik represents not only the language but also the name for the people themselves (yuk 'person' plus pik 'real'.) Central Alaskan Yup'ik is the largest of the state's Native languages, both in the size of its population and the number of speakers. Children still grow up speaking Yup'ik as their first language in 17 of 68 Yup'ik villages, those mainly located on the lower Kuskokwim River, on Nelson Island, and along the coast between the Kuskokwim River and Nelson Island. The use of the apostrophe in Central Alaskan Yup'ik, as opposed to Siberian Yupik, denotes a long p. www.flw.com /languages/yupikcentral.htm   (127 words)

Heritage Languages in America - Resources Language nests preserve the Maori language that was dying out, provide a valuable service to working parents, and, most importantly, strengthen the cultural values associated with the traditional Maori extended family (Fleras, 1989). Literacy is an admirable goal: it involves local speakers in developing written materials; it documents for future generations the language and the knowledge the language conveys; it provides the community with a sense of pride in their people and their language; and, at the same time, it gives the student a powerful language learning tool. Among Indians there is a history of suspicion of non-Indian, native-language efforts based on the history of native-language use by non-Indians. www.cal.org /heritage/resources/art_maintaining.html   (7999 words)

Inuit IV. Language and Literature The Inupiaq and Yupik languages have an immense number of suffixes that are added to a smaller number of root words; these suffixes function similarly to verb endings, case endings, prepositional phrases, and even whole clauses in the English language. Yupik languages are spoken by about 17,000 people, including some 1000 in the former Soviet Union. These various languages are used for the first year of school in some parts of Siberia, for religious instruction and education in schools under Inuit control in Alaska, and in schools and communications media in Canada and Greenland. www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/inuit4.htm   (355 words)

Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release The Yupik language, chosen this year by ELF from among 50 applicants, is unique in that its speakers span two different nations on two separate continents. An Eskimo-Aleut language, Yupik is spoken on St. Lawrence Island in the United States and in Siberia, part of the former Soviet Union. The only language that these distant relatives share is Yupik, but Russian speakers lag behind Americans in their ability to speak it. www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/02-11-22-01.all.html   (387 words)

The Long Now Foundation: Press Yupik is one of thousands of languages that are expected to die over the next century. The Yupik language, once common among Inuit communities on the Alaskan coast, is now spoken solely by adults. While linguists struggle to keep the languages in these small communities alive, a group of researchers in San Francisco is determined to save some record of current linguistic diversity for thousands of years into the future--long after its speakers are gone. www.longnow.org /press/articles/ArtRosettaLATimes.php   (777 words)

Linguistic Society of America - Frequently Asked Questions First of all, there isn't just one Eskimo language; the people we refer to as 'Eskimos' speak a variety of languages in the Inuit and Yupik language families. But this doesn't necessarily mean that our language has forced a certain view of time on us; it could also be that our view of time is reflected in our language, or that the way we deal with time in our culture is reflected in both our language and our thoughts. Not really, but if the new language is very different from your own, it may give you some insight into another culture and another way of life. www.lsadc.org /faq/index.php?aaa=faqthink.htm   (1478 words)

2002 Summit Educators of the Year Moses grew up with Aleut as his first language, learning the importance of his language and culture from his grandfather and has spent most of his career teaching the Aleut Language and Culture, in Adak in the ‘80’s, and in Unalaska since 1997. She incorporated weather, Yup’ik kinship, food gathering, preparation, preserving, legends, animal migration, Yup’ik dancing, clothing, seasonal subsistence activities, celebrations and festivities, story telling, geographical place names, colors, grass basket weaving, and even the pledge of Allegiance in Yupik, into her classroom curriculum. She has been a role model not only for students, but educators and community members both home and away and is appreciated for her willingness and ability to work with others in sharing the importance of teaching children from their perspectives. www.firstalaskans.org /510.cfm   (841 words)

Alaska Native Language Center -- Comparative Yupik and Inuit Four distinct Yupik (or Western Eskimo) languages are spoken along the shores of the Gulf of Alaska, in southwestern Alaska, and on the easternmost tip of Siberia. Another Eskimo language, the virtually extinct Sirenikski of Siberia, is usually grouped with the Yupik languages although it may actually constitute a third distinct branch. For example, the word for ‘leg’ is iru in all forms of Yupik and niu in Inuit, though both forms come from the same ancient Eskimo word. www.uaf.edu /anlc/yupik_inuit.html   (379 words)

The Eskimo-Aleut language of Canada In her article, the author mentions that there are two Eskimo languages (Yupik and Inuktitut) which are spoken from Greenland to Siberia. I decided to investigate this particular language family because even though I know some about the Eskimo language of Inuktitut, I do not know anything about the Aleut and Yupik languages derived from this language family. She vaguely answers two out of the three questions I had regarding the language. www.unh.edu /linguistics/courses/790CS/annotations/HW2/Aleut.Malena.HW2.htm   (575 words)

Canku Ota - May 18, 2002 - School Reaches Out to Embrace Native Roots James Gump, a Yupik elder, teaches students songs and dances of their ancestors. Gutierrez and his staff are integrating the Yupik culture into the school's curriculum wherever possible. The school's attempts have been welcomed by a community that's concerned with the loss of its Native language. www.turtletrack.org /Issues02/Co05182002/CO_05182002_Yupik.htm   (772 words)

Yupik language --  Encyclopædia Britannica Yupik, a dialectal form meaning “real person,” includes five languages: Central Alaskan Yupik, spoken southward from Norton Sound; Pacific Yupik, commonly called Alutiiq, spoken from the Alaska Peninsula eastward to Prince William Sound; Naukanski Siberian Yupik, whose speakers were resettled southward from Cape Dezhnyov, the easternmost point of the Eurasian landmass;... The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family. From their origins in East-Central Europe, the Slavic languages spread widely and are now spoken throughout most of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, parts of Central Europe, and the northern portion of Asia. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002481?tocId=9002481   (647 words)

News-Miner - Local He polished his Yupik grammar, studied the Inupiaq language of northern Alaska and then completed an individual study of the Greenlandic language by spending six months there. All the Eskimo languages are related, from southern Alaska around the polar coast to Greenland. During a trip to Washington, D.C., with the Yupik dance and singing group Nunamta, with which he has performed since 1978, Chimegalrea saw the then-unfinished National Museum of the American Indian. www.news-miner.com /Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2970247,00.html   (1221 words)

Inuit Indians However, the Yupik are not Inuit in the sense of being descended from the Thule and prefer to be called Yupik or Eskimo. Alaskan Inupiaq live on the North Slope of Alaska, while the Yupik live in western Alaska and a part of Chukotka Autonomous Area in Russia. In Eskimo Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit people, "Inuit" means "the people". www.crystalinks.com /inuit.html   (3494 words)

freedomforum.org: Two lawsuits challenge Alaska's English-only law Alaska's newly adopted "English-only" initiative, which mandates that English is the only language to be "used by all public agencies in all government functions and actions," violates free-speech and free-petition rights, according to two lawsuits filed recently in state court. The law provides 11 exceptions so that government officials may communicate in a language other than English, such as when an official teaches students a language, communicates health and safety information in an emergency, attends a religious ceremony or investigates criminal activity. Proponents of the law say that another of the exceptions — allowing government officials to speak in another language "to the extent necessary to comply with federal law, including the Native American Languages Act" — saves the law from constitutional attack. www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=10363   (705 words)

At Remote Eskimo School, Yearning for the Lower 48 Kanrilak says his generation was the last to be immersed in the Yupik language. In Yupik culture, nature is a metaphysic—a source of abstract knowledge of cosmology and being. Experts say that language loss is perhaps the strongest indicator that a culture is eroding. news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/02/0224_050224_tununak_2.html   (1068 words)

Jewish-Languages Mailing List: February 2002 I think this phenomenon is comparable to Jewish languages in so far as in both cases a local language is written in Arabic/Hebrew script because of the religious and cultural prestige of that script within the group that uses it. Mozarabic, a romance language in the middle ages, was written in Arabic characters and influenced by Arabic. In the Russian Empire, where the official language was Russian and the local languages were Ukrainian, Belarusan, Lithuanian, etc., Yiddish survived, as it did in those parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire where the local language was neither German nor Hungarian. www.jewish-languages.org /ml/200202.html   (5411 words)

ipedia.com: Yupik Article The Yupik language (related to Inuktitut) is still spoken, especially in the smaller villages. A group closely related to the Yupik are the Siberian Yup'ik of Siberia. The Yupik people live along the coast of Western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. www.ipedia.com /yupik.html   (176 words)

The Image of Who I am The teachers taught the Yupik language to the students. The Yupik traditions in my village are still being used today. The elders tell me to speak my language because it might be forgotten. www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us /portfolios/whitneyc/projects/pms.html   (2651 words)

NATHPO - News exclusively in the Yupik language may be required to pass federal tests And even if it could, the Yupik language, though spoken by thousands of don't begin formal academic training in the language until fourth grade. www.nathpo.org /News/Language/News_Native-Languages22.html   (550 words)

UAF Newsroom: Cultural History of Bering Strait Shared Through Yupik Storytelling Koonooka is a 1995 graduate of UAF's Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI) and a 2002 graduate of UAF with a bachelor's degree in Yupik Eskimo and a minor in anthropology. A collection of stories first told by Yupik-speaking people on the Russian side of the Bering Strait has been published by the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. CONTACT: Tom Alton, Alaska Native Language Center (907) 474-6577 or by e-mail at fyanlp@uaf.edu, or Carla Browning, public information officer at (907) 474-7778 or carla.browning@uaf.edu or visit the ANLC website www.uaf.edu/anlc/publications.html for more information. www.uaf.edu /news/a_news/20031009141634.html   (331 words)

Ethnologue 14 report for language code:YSR Other Eskimo residents of Sirenik village now speak Central Siberian Yupik. The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=YSR   (50 words)

ERIC Search Results Language Use of Families in an Inuit Community. In addition, 49 specific recommendations address issues of administrative structure, school programs and curriculum, language of instruction, teacher education and recruitment, special education, adult education, and policy implementation. A Report on Subsistence and the Conservation of the Yupik Life-Style.;. www.alaskool.org /resources/ERIC/ericsear2.htm   (1382 words)

MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Yupik Yupik language group: the group of Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken by the Yupik people.3,000. Search for "Yupik" in all of MSN Encarta Click here to search all of MSN Encarta encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861739775/Yupik.html   (88 words)

Yupik --  Encyclopædia Britannica The traditional economic activity of the Yupik-speaking Eskimo was the hunting of sea mammals, especially seals, walrus, and, until the latter half of the 19th century, whales. "Yupik." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078135   (62 words)

Beringia Notes, volume 6, number 2, November 15, 1997 Toward this end, we received a response on the last issue from Steven Jacobson, Associate Professor of Yupik Eskimo, University of Alaska Fairbanks. This issue comletes the work by providing the English, Russian, Inupiaq, and Siberian Yupik names of birds of Central Beringia. These examples show the ammount of work necessary to preserve languages, and a lot of work remains. www.nps.gov /akso/beringia/berinotesnov97.htm   (612 words)

Amazon.ca: Transforming the Culture Schools P: Books A school should be established with Yugtun langauge in the location where the language is strongly spoken. The culture in Eilgayaq has a foundation with a Yugtun language. The elders of Eilgayaq have a unique ability to keep the language strong. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805828214   (266 words)

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