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    The Yupʼik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yupʼik, Central Yupʼik, Alaskan Yupʼik (own name Yupʼik sg Yupiik dual Yupiit...
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  • Central Alaskan Yupʼik (also rendered Yupik, Central Yupik, or indigenously Yugtun) is one of the languages of the Yupik family, in turn a member of the...
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    Yup'ik cuisine (Yupiit neqait in Yup'ik language, literally "Yup'iks' foods" or "Yup'iks' fishes") refers to the Inuit and Yup'ik style traditional subsistence...
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    Yup'ik clothing (Yup'ik aturaq sg aturak dual aturat pl, aklu, akluq, un’u ; also, piluguk in Unaliq-Pastuliq dialect, aklu, cangssagar, un’u in Nunivak...
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    Yupik active speaker remains in Russia. Central Alaskan Yup'ik (also Yugtun, Central Yup'ik, Yup'ik, West Alaska Eskimo): spoken on the Alaska mainland from...
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    Yup'ik dance or Yuraq, also Yuraqing (Yup'ik yuraq /juʁaq/ sg yurak dual yurat pl) is a traditional Eskimo style dancing form usually performed to songs...
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  • (400 speakers) Eskimo (Yup'ik, Yuit, and Inuit) Yupik Central Alaskan Yup'ik (10,000 speakers) Alutiiq or Pacific Gulf Yup'ik (400 speakers) Central Siberian...
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    Yup'ik masks (Yup'ik kegginaquq sg kegginaquk dual kegginaqut pl and nepcetaq sg nepcetat pl; in the Lower Yukon dialects avangcaq sg avangcak dual avangcat...
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  • formerly known as the Yup'ik Museum, Library, and Multipurpose Cultural Center (or Facility), is a non-profit cultural center of the Yup'ik (and sometimes Alaskan...
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    in southwest Alaska, is part of the territory of the Yup'ik, speakers of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. Thomas, William Isaac (1906). "The relation...
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    race; Camai, a Yup'ik dance festival held each spring; and the Bethel Fair held in August. Southwestern Alaska has been the homelands of Yup'ik peoples and...
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    year 1900 by Uyaquq to write the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. Uyaquq, who was monolingual in Yup'ik but had a son who was literate in English, initially...
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    Peninsula and coastal and island areas of southcentral Alaska. Yupʼik or Central Alaskan Yupʼik of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, the Kuskokwim River, and along...
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    ceremonies, Musée du Quai Branly Yup'ik mask from the Jacobsen collection, 1883, in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin Yup'ik mask from the Jacobsen collection...
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    Alutiiq (redirect from Pacific Yup'ik)
    Alutiiq language. It is one of the Eskaleut languages, belonging to the Yup'ik branch of these languages. The Kodiak dialect of the language was being...
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    "Crow Village" Sam Phillips (Yup'ik, c. 1893–1974) was an Alaskan Native leader who lived in the mid-Kuskokwim River valley in Alaska. Sam Phillips was...
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    Yup'ik doll (Yup'ik yugaq sg yugak dual yugat pl or yuguaq, irniaruaq, irnianguaq, inuguaq; also, yunguaq in Unaliq-Pastuliq dialect, sugaq, sugaruaq...
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    Chevak speak a dialect of Central Yup'ik, Cup'ik (pr. Chew-pick), and identify themselves as Cup'ik people rather than Yup'ik. This unique identity has allowed...
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  • Alaskan Yup'ik spoken in Central Alaska at the Nunivak Island by Nunivak Cup'ig people (own name Cup'it or Nuniwarmiut). The letter "c" in the Yup’ik alphabet...
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  • Central Alaskan Yup'ik may refer to: Central Alaskan Yup'ik people Central Alaskan Yup'ik language This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • the first Yup'ik person, to be canonized as an Orthodox saint. Matushka Olga, known among the locals as Olinka, was a Native Alaskan of Yup'ik origin. Her...
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    the cosmos." The Yup'ik are Eskimos of western Alaska whose masks vary enormously but are characterised by great invention. Yup'ik masks differ in size...
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    Chugach Alutiiq (Sugt’stun) Central Alaskan Yup'ik (5,000 speakers ±50%) General Central Alaskan Yup'ik (Yugtun) Chevak Cupꞌik (Cugtun) Nunivak Cupʼig...
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  • They served the Yup'ik, used their language in the Moravian Church in their area, and supported development of a writing system for Yup'ik. John was the...
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    The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River (Yupʼik: Kusquqvak; Deg Xinag: Digenegh; Upper Kuskokwim: Dichinanekʼ; Russian: Кускоквим (Kuskokvim)) is a river, 702...
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    iggaak (ᐃᒡᒑᒃ). Both words are also used to refer to sunglasses. In Central Yup'ik, snow goggles are called nigaugek, while in Cup'ig they are igguag. In Siberian...
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  • was an American Yup'ik elder, cultural advocate, and commercial fisherman. John was a proponent of traditional Central Alaskan Yup'ik culture, including...
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    In the Inuit religion of the Yup'ik the Negafook (or Negagfok) represents "the North Wind" or "the spirit that likes cold and stormy weather." A mask representing...
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    age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. Yup'ik dancing is popular in the village. The high school has an Yup'ik Dance Team which often visits other villages...
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  • The Amikuk is a creature of Yup'ik legend, said to live within the ground. As a shapeshifter, the Amikuk is said to take many forms, and to behave differently...
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