The Chaplino dialect (also known as Chaplinski dialect, Chaplinski Yupik, Eskimo Uŋaziq and Chaplinski language) is a dialect of the

Central Siberian Yupik language Central Siberian Yupik (also known as Siberian Yupik, Bering Strait Yupik, Yuit, Yoit, "St. Lawrence Island Yupik", and in Russia "Chaplinski Yupik" or Yuk) is an endangered Yupik language spoken by the Indigenous Siberian Yupik people along the ...

spoken by the indigenous Eskimo people along the coast of

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in the

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, in the villages of

Novoye Chaplino Novoye Chaplino (, Siberian Yupik: ''Ungaziq'') is a village ('' selo'') in Providensky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. Population: Municipally, Novoye Chaplino is subordinated to Providensky ...

("New Chaplino"),

Provideniya Provideniya ( rus, Провиде́ния, p=prəvʲɪˈdʲenʲɪjə; Chukchi: ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Providensky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Komsomolskay ...

, Uelkal and

Sireniki Sireniki (; Yupik: Сиӷинык, literally ''Mountain of Horns''; Chukchi: , ''Vutèèn''; Sirenik: ''Sigheneg'') is a village ('' selo'') in Providensky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. P ...

. The Chaplino dialect is named after the village of (also known as "''Old Chaplino''"; native name is "Уӈазиӄ" (Uŋaziq), from ''уӈаӄ'' "whisker" + suffix '). The Chaplino dialect is spoken by the majority of

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Yuits Siberian Yupiks, or Yuits (), are a Yupik people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska. They speak Central Siberian Yupik (also known as Yu ...

. The Chaplino dialect is close in

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and

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to that of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik dialect (''"Sivuqaghmiistun"'').

Orthography

The Chaplino alphabet now stands as follows:

References

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