Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the language of the yup’ik. They mainly speak central yup’ik. and they have a total population of about 21,000 people and only about 10,000 are speakers of the language. “Children still grow up speaking Yup’ik as their first language.”
Central Yup’ik was done mostly by Russian Orthodox. The University of Alaska in Fairbanks developed a modern writing system for the Yup’ik language, and their work led to the establishment of the state’s first school bilingual programs in Yup’ik towns. Since then, a variety of bilingual materials has been published.
There are many more facts on the source we got our information from. The Yupik language has a lot of people speaking it every day in their normal life. There are so many that grow up with this language that it becomes a thing that they share.
The yup’ik is dancing.
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Yupik or Western Eskimo, traditionally residing in Siberia, St. Lawrence Island and the Diomede Islands in the Bering sea and Bering strait , and Alaska. The traditional economic activity of the Yupiit was the hunting of sea mammals, especially seals, walrus, and whales. Trade with the Russians developed at the end of the 19th century. The Yupiit also traded with neighboring reindeer breeders. Enterprising Yupiit specialized in trade and used their economic advantage to become village chiefs. Deciding the times for trade journeys. Hunting methods boats, spearing animals in land drives, and, later, the use of guns.
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Alaska Native Language Center. “Languages – Central Yup’ik | Alaska Native Language Center.” Www.uaf.edu, www.uaf.edu/anlc/languages/centralakyupik.php.
Alaska Travel Industry Association. “Yupik.” Travel Alaska, 2022, www.travelalaska.com/Things-To-Do/Alaska-Native-Culture/Cultures/Yupik. Accessed 1 June 2022.
The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. “Yupik | People.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 21 July 2016, www.britannica.com/topic/Yupik.
www.AAANativeArts.com Read more at: https://www.aaanativearts.com/alutiiq-sugpiaq. “Alutiiq / Sugpiaq.” AAA Native Arts, 16 Mar. 2014, www.aaanativearts.com/alutiiq-sugpiaq. Accessed 1 June 2022.