Chaplino dialect

Chaplino dialect
Уӈазиӷмит (Uŋazigmit)
Native to Russia, United States
Region Bering Strait region
Native speakers
 ≈1600 (total) (1997)[1]
≈500 in Russia (1997)
Eskimo–Aleut
  • Eskimo
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ess (Central Siberian Yupik)
Glottolog cent2128  Central Siberian Yupik[2]

The Chaplino dialect (also known as Chaplinski dialect, Chaplinski Yupik, Eskimo Uŋaziq and Chaplinski language) is a dialect of the Central Siberian Yupik language spoken by the indigenous Eskimo people along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and in the villages of Novoye Chaplino ("New Chaplino"), Provideniya, Uelkal and Sireniki. The Chaplino dialect is named after the village of Chaplino (also known as "Old Chaplino"; native name is "Уӈазиӄ" (Uŋaziq), from уӈаӄ "whisker" + suffix -зиӄ/-сиӄ). The Chaplino dialect is spoken by the majority of Russian Yuits.[3]

The Chaplino dialect is close in lexicon and grammar to that of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik dialect ("Sivuqaghmiistun").[4]

Orthography

The Chaplino dialect alphabet now stands as follows:

А а Б б В в Г г Ӷ ӷ Д д Е е Ё ё Ж ж З з
И и Й й К к Ӄ ӄ Л л Лъ лъ М м Н н Нъ нъ Ӈ ӈ
О о П п Р р С с Т т У у Ў ў Ф ф Х х Ӽ ӽ
Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я

References

  1. ↑ Меновщиков, Г. А. (1997). Языки мира. Палеоазиатские языки [Languages of the world. Paleoasian languages] (in Russian). Moscow: Индрик. p. 75–81. ISBN 5-85759-046-9.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Siberian Yupik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Thomas Sebeok (2013). Native Languages of the Americas. New York: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-4757-1559-0.
  4. ↑ Dirmid R. F. Collis (1990). Arctic languages: An awakening. Paris, France: Unesco. p. 70. ISBN 978-92-3-102661-4.

  • Меновщиков, Г. А. (1988). Материалы и исследования по языку и фольклору чаплинских эскимосов [Materials on the language and folklore of the Eskimo] (in Russian). Leningrad: Наука. ISBN 5-02-027861-0.
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