Central Siberian Yupik

Facts

  • Language: Central Siberian Yupik
  • Alternate names: St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Bering Strait Yupik, чаплинский язык, Yoit, Yuk, Yuit, Siberian Yupik, Asiatic Yupik, Chaplinsk, シベリア・ユピック語
  • Language code: ess
  • Language family: Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Yupik (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 1,300
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Cyrillic script. Latin script.

More information:

    Interaction between the varieties spoken in the United States and Russia has been greatly restricted since the 1950's, though they remain mutually intelligible.