Yup'ik
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Borrowed from Yup'ik Yup'ik (“real person”), from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣpiɣ, from *iŋuɣ (“human, person”).
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Yup'ik (plural Yup'iks or Yup'ik)
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Yup'ik
- (linguistics) A language of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
- (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.
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a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family
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subbranch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages
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- 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)