History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Author: Jacobson, Steven A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc. 2005
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Bering Strait; Lawrence Island; Chaplino; Naukan; Lavrentiya; Central Siberian Yupik; Chukotka; Détroit de Béring; eskimo*; Études/Inuit/Studies; Siberian Yupik; Sirenik; Sirenik*; St Lawrence Island; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/013937ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/013937ar

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...