History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary
Naukan is a Yupik Eskimo language spoken now by only a few people on the Russian side of the Bering Strait, but with strong Alaskan affinities. Naukan speaker Dobrieva of Lavrentiya, linguist Golovko of St. Petersburg, and linguists Jacobson and Krauss of Fairbanks have compiled a Naukan dictionary...
Published in: | Études/Inuit/Studies |
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Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc.
2005
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Online Access: | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/013937ar https://doi.org/10.7202/013937ar |
Summary: | Naukan is a Yupik Eskimo language spoken now by only a few people on the Russian side of the Bering Strait, but with strong Alaskan affinities. Naukan speaker Dobrieva of Lavrentiya, linguist Golovko of St. Petersburg, and linguists Jacobson and Krauss of Fairbanks have compiled a Naukan dictionary in two parallel volumes: Naukan in a latin-letter orthography to English, and Naukan in the modified Cyrillic alphabet used for Chukotkan Eskimo languages to Russian. It was both appropriate and beneficial that this project involved people from Alaska, European Russia, and Chukotka. The dictionary was recently published by the Alaska Native Language Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Naukan dictionary in two parallel volumes can serve as a model for a new dictionary of (Central) Siberian Yupik, a language spoken, at least ancestrally, by roughly equal numbers on St. Lawrence Island Alaska and in the New Chaplino-Sirenik area of Chukotka, Russia. Such a dictionary could help to reinvigorate that language and allow it better to serve as a bridge between the two halves of a single people and culture divided only in recent decades by a boundary not of their own making. Naukan est une langue Yupik qui n’est parlée de nos jours que par quelques personnes du côté russe du détroit de Béring, qui ont toutefois de fortes affinités alaskiennes. Dobrieva de Lavrentiya, qui parle naukan, le linguiste Golovko de St Petersbourg et les linguistes Krauss et Jacobson de Fairbanks ont compilé un dictionnaire naukan en deux volumes parallèles: naukan-anglais avec le naukan orthographié en lettres latines et, naukan-russe avec le naukan transcrit dans l’alphabet cyrillique modifié que l’on utilise pour les langues eskimo de Tchoukotka. L’implication dans ce projet de gens de l’Alaska, de l’Europe russe et de la Tchoukotka était à la fois appropriée et bénéfique. Le dictionnaire a été publié récemment par le Centre des langues Autochtones d’Alaska de l’Université d’Alaska à Fairbanks. Le dictionnaire naukan en deux volumes ... |
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