Naukan Yupik language
or Naukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Нывуӄаӷмистун; Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered
Eskimo language spoken by c. 70
Naukan persons (''нывуӄаӷмит'') on the
Chukotka peninsula
The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; , ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form , ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost peninsula of Asia. Its eastern end is at Cape Dezhnev near the village ...
. It is one of the four
Yupik languages
The Yupik languages () are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka. The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one ...
, along with
Central Siberian Yupik,
Central Alaskan Yup'ik and
Pacific Gulf Yupik.
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.
Morphology
Chart example of the
oblique case
In grammar, an oblique ( abbreviated ; from ) or objective case ( abbr. ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative.
A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role except as subject, ...
:
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ''ʀ'' to drop with compensatory
gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (; from Latin 'doubling', itself from '' gemini'' 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct from ...
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, *ŋ was 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 becomes ''ii'' in these areas.
Numerals
Notes
References
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Indigenous languages of Siberia
Endangered Eskaleut languages
Yupik languages
Siberian Yupik
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