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 languages (redirect from Yup'ik languages)
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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Eskimo (section Central Alaskan Yup'ik)
(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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Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (redirect from Yup'ik Museum)
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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Yugtun script (redirect from Yup'ik syllabary)
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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Siberian Yupik (redirect from Siberian Yup'ik)
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 (redirect from Sam Phillips (Yup'ik))
"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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Nunivak Cupʼig language (redirect from Nunivak Yup'ik language)
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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Masks among Eskimo peoples (section Yup'ik masks)
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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