Akuzipik/Yupik (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, USA; Chukotka, Russia) - Language Snapshot ...

• Main Authors: Koonooka, Christopher Petuwaq, Schreiner, Sylvia L.R., Soldati, Giulia Masella, Schwartz, Lane, Hunt, Benjamin, Haas, Preston, Chen, Emily, Park, Hyunji Hayley
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Language Documentation and Description 2021
• Subjects: Bering Strait; Lawrence Island; Chaplinski Yupik; Chukotka; Chukotka Peninsula; inuit; Inuit–Yupik; Siberian Yupik; St Lawrence Island; St. Lawrence Island Yupik; Unangan; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25894/ldd43; https://www.lddjournal.org/article/id/1261/

Akuzipik (Yupigestun/Yupik/St. Lawrence Island Yupik/Siberian Yupik/Chaplinski Yupik) is an endangered language belonging to the Yupik branch of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family. It is currently spoken by 800-900 people in the Bering Strait region, mainly on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska (St. Lawrence Island Yupik), and on the coast of the Chukotka Peninsula, in Russia (Chaplinski Yupik) (de Reuse 1994; Schwartz et al. 2019). The linguistic differences between these two varieties seem to be minor and not affect mutual intelligibility (Krauss 1975). The language has been undergoing a rapid generational shift, beginning in the 1950s in Russia and in the 1990s in Alaska (Schwartz et al. 2019). ... : Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021) ...