Naukan Yupik language[3] or Naukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Нывуӄаӷмистун; Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered Eskimo language spoken by c. 70 Naukan persons (нывуӄаӷмит) on the Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, along with Central Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Pacific Gulf Yupik.
| Naukan Yupik | |
|---|---|
| Нывуӄаӷмистун Nuvuqaghmiistun | |
| Native to | Russian Federation |
| Region | Bering Strait region (or Chukchi Peninsula) |
| Ethnicity | 450 Naukan people (2010)[1] |
Native speakers | 60, 13% of ethnic population (2010)[2] |
Early forms | |
| Cyrillic | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Russia
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ynk |
| Glottolog | nauk1242 |
| ELP | Naukan Yupik |
 Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots) | |
 East Cape Yupik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.[4]
Morphology
editChart example of the oblique case:
| Case | singular | dual | plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locative | mi | ɣni | ni |
| Abl. / Instr. | məɣ | ɣnəɣ | nəɣ |
| Allative | mun | ɣnun | nun |
| Vialis | kun | ɣkun | təkun |
| Aequalis | tun | ɣtun | tətun |
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory gemination in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, *ŋ was often dropped within morphemes except when next to *ə. *ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ, ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and *ana becomes ii in these areas.
Numerals
edit| ataasiq | 1 | aghvinelek | 6 | atghanelek | 11 | akimiaq ataasimeng | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| maalghut | 2 | maalghugneng aghvinelek | 7 | maalghugneng atghanelek | 12 | akimiaq maalghugneng | 17 |
| pingayut | 3 | pingayuneng aghvinelek | 8 | pingayuneng atghanelek | 13 | akimiaq pingayuneng | 18 |
| sitamat | 4 | qulngughutngilnguq | 9 | akimiaghutngilnguq | 14 | yuinaghutngilnguq | 19 |
| tallimat | 5 | qulmeng | 10 | akimiaq | 15 | yuinaq | 20 |
Notes
edit- ^ Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ^ Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ^ Jacobson 2005
- ^ Jacobson 2005, p. 150
References
edit- Jacobson, Steven A. (2005), "History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary" (PDF), Études/Inuit/Studies, 29 (1–2)
- Fortescue, M. D.; Jacobson, S. A.; Kaplan, L. D. (1994), Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center
