Yup'ik

See also: yupik, Yupik, and Yu'pik

English

Alternative forms

• Yupik, Yu'pik

Etymology

Borrowed from Yup'ik Yup'ik (“real person”), from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣpiɣ, from *iŋuɣ (“human, person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːpɪk/
• Rhymes: -uːpɪk

Noun

Yup'ik (plural Yup'iks or Yup'ik)

1. (ethnology) A member of an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska.

Synonyms

• Central Alaskan Yupik
• Central Yupik
• West Alaska Eskimo

Proper noun

Yup'ik

1. (linguistics) A language of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
2. (linguistics) A subbranch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. This is the only language family known to straddle both North America and Asia. It is centered squarely in Alaska and is thought to have migrated across to Siberia a few hundred years ago.

Hyponyms

• Alutiiq
• Yup'ik
• Central Siberian Yupik
• Naukanski

Translations

a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family

• Azerbaijani: Alyaska yupikcəsi, Yupikcə
• Central Siberian Yupik: Yupigestun
• Danish: alaskayupik
• Estonian: keskjupiki keel
• Finnish: alaskanjupik
• French: yupik de l’Alaska central m
• Galician: iupik (gl)
• Georgian: ცენტრალურ ალასკური იუპიკური ენა (cenṭralur alasḳuri iuṗiḳuri ena)
• Irish: Iúpaicis f
• Karakalpak: Alyaska Yupik tili
• Lezgi: Аляскадин юпик чӏал (Aläskadin jupik č̣al)
• Lithuanian: Aliaskos jupikų kalba
• North Frisian: Alaska jupik
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alaskayupik

  Nynorsk: alaskayupik

• Piedmontese: lenga yupik sentral f
• Polish: język yupik środkowy m
• Portuguese: yupik m
• Russian: аля́скинский ю́пик m (aljáskinskij júpik), центра́льно-ю́пикский язы́к m (centrálʹno-júpikskij jazýk)
• Turkish: Yupikçe (tr)
• Udmurt: Аляскаысь юпик кыл (Aľaskayś jupik kyl)
• Ukrainian: центральноаляскинська юпікська мова f (centralʹnoaljaskynsʹka jupiksʹka mova)
• Yup'ik: Yugtun, Yugcetun qaneryaraq

subbranch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages

• Finnish: jupikki (fi)
• Russian: ю́пик m (júpik), ю́пикский m (júpikskij)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yup'ik terms
• Wikipedia article on Yup’ik

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Pacific Gulf Yupik, ems ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Yup'ik, esu ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Central Siberian Yupik, ess ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Naukan Yupik, ynk ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Sirenik Yupik, ysr ⁠ (extinct)