Uyaquq (also Uyaquk or Uyakoq; sometimes referred to in English as Helper Neck) (ca. 1860–1924) was a member of the Yup'ik people who became a Helper in...
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a syllabary invented around the year 1900 by Uyaquq to write the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. Uyaquq, who was monolingual in Yup'ik but had a son...
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script Syllabary Central Alaskan Yup'ik Alaska 1900–present Endangered Uyaquq Afaka syllabary Syllabary Ndyuka Suriname, French Guiana 1910–present Endangered...
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Saint Innocent of Alaska, Reverend John Hinz (see John Henry Kilbuck) and Uyaquq had the limited goals of transmitting religious beliefs in written form...
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fifth-generation direct descendant of Sequoyah Tahlonteeskee (Cherokee chief) Tenevil Uyaquq As he himself signed his name. As it is often spelled in Cherokee. Wilford...
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alphabet-like full vowel symbols, to write the Ho language Yugtun ca. 1900 Uyaquq Syllabary historically used to write the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language...
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the first woman to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives Uyaquq (Helper Neck) (c. 1860–1924), Moravian helper, author, translator, and inventor...
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Rytkheu dedicated his 1969 novel A Dream in Polar Fog to Tenevil. Sequoyah Uyaquq "Chukotskoye pis'mo: Samaya severnaya pis'mennost' mira" Чукотское письмо:...
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A syllabary known as the Yugtun script was invented for the language by Uyaquq, a native speaker, in about 1900, although the language is now mostly written...
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scripture and other material into Yup'ik written with Roman (English) letters. Uyaquq, a local "helper," convert and later missionary, translated some of these...
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