Yup'ik definition

English

Alternative forms

• Yupik, Yu'pik

Etymology

Borrowed from Yup'ik Yup'ik (“real person”), from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣpiɣ, from *iŋuɣ (“human, person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːpɪk/
• Rhymes: -uːpɪk

Noun

Yup'ik (plural Yup'iks or Yup'ik)

1. (ethnology) A member of an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska.

Synonyms

• Central Alaskan Yupik
• Central Yupik
• West Alaska Eskimo

Proper noun

Yup'ik

1. (linguistics) A language of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
2. (linguistics) A subbranch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. This is the only language family known to straddle both North America and Asia. It is centered squarely in Alaska and is thought to have migrated across to Siberia a few hundred years ago.

Hyponyms

• Alutiiq
• Yup'ik
• Central Siberian Yupik
• Naukanski

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yup'ik terms
• Wikipedia article on Yup’ik

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Pacific Gulf Yupik, ems ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Yup'ik, esu ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Central Siberian Yupik, ess ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Naukan Yupik, ynk ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Sirenik Yupik, ysr ⁠ (extinct)