Naukan Yupik language
Naukan Yupik language[3] or Naukan Siberian Yupik language is a critically endangered Eskimo language spoken by ca. 70 Naukan persons (нывуӄаӷмит) on Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, along with Central Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Pacific Gulf Yupik.
| Naukan Yupik | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Russian Federation |
| Region | Bering Strait region |
| Ethnicity | 510 Naukan people (2010)[1] |
Native speakers | 60, 13% of ethnic population (2010)[1] |
Eskimo–Aleut
| |
| Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ynk |
| Glottolog | nauk1242[2] |
 Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots) | |
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.[4]
Morphology
Chart example of the oblique case:
| Case | singular | dual | plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locative | mi | ˠni | ni |
| Abl. / Instr. | məˠ | ˠnəˠ | nəˠ |
| Allative | mun | ˠnun | nun |
| Vialis | kun | ˠkun | təkun |
| Aequalis | tun | ˠtun | tətun |
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory gemination in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, the ŋ is often dropped within morphemes except when next to ə. ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ,ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and "ana" goes to "ii" in theses areas.
Numerals
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen | fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen | nineteen | twenty | |
| ataasiq | maalghut | pingayut | sitamat | tallimat | aghvinelek | maalghugneng aghvinelek | pingayuneng aghvinelek | qulngughutngilnguq | qulmeng | atghanelek | maalghugneng atghanelek | pingayuneng atghanelek | akimiaghutngilnguq | akimiaq | akimiaq ataasimeng | akimiaq maalghugneng | akimiaq pingayuneng | yuinaghutngilnguq | yuinaq | |
Notes
- Naukan Yupik at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Naukan Yupik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jacobson 2005
- Jacobson 2005, p. 150
References
- Jacobson, Steven A. (2005), "History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary" (PDF), Études/Inuit/Studies, 29 (1–2)
- Fortescue, M. D.; Jacobson, S. A.; Kaplan, L. D. (1994), Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center