Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions?
This article analyzes the list of Siberian Yupik names for birds from Chukotka, Russia, from the unpublished "Dictionary of Traditional Subsistence Terminology of the Asiatic Yupik Eskimo" (n.d., 2010]), produced by the late Russian biologist Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya and Yupik language exper...
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ftsmithonian:oai:repository.si.edu:10088/99353 2023-05-15T15:44:14+02:00 Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? Krupnik, Igor 2017 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10088/99353 https://doi.org/10.7202/1061438ar unknown Études Inuit. Inuit Studies Krupnik, Igor. 2017. " Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? ." Études Inuit. Inuit Studies . 41 (1-2):179. https://doi.org/10.7202/1061438ar 0701-1008 https://hdl.handle.net/10088/99353 152996 doi:10.7202/1061438ar Journal Article 2017 ftsmithonian https://doi.org/10.7202/1061438ar 2020-09-09T18:27:50Z This article analyzes the list of Siberian Yupik names for birds from Chukotka, Russia, from the unpublished "Dictionary of Traditional Subsistence Terminology of the Asiatic Yupik Eskimo" (n.d., 2010]), produced by the late Russian biologist Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya and Yupik language expert Lyudmila Ainana. It compares Bogoslovskaya and Ainana's list against other lists of Indigenous bird names compiled in Chukotka and among the nearby Native Alaskan groups in the Bering Strait area, and biological (Linnaean) bird nomenclatures for the same region. The sequence of collected Yupik bird name lists from the 1930s to the early 2000s reveals a strong correlation to the advancing language and knowledge shift, as the Chukotka Yupik were increasingly driven to bilingualism by the Russian-dominated speech environment, media, and school system. By the time ornithologists and linguists compiled the first Native lists of bird names, the Yupik in Chukotka had already lost certain layers of their traditional bird taxonomy, but some of its elements may be construed. As the loss of traditional names for birds continues, the Yupik actively borrow Russian terms (or English, in Alaska) to describe many bird species they encounter in their environment. NH-Anthropology NMNH Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Strait Chukotka eskimo* Siberian Yupik Yupik Alaska Unknown Bering Strait Études/Inuit/Studies 41 1-2 179 |
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This article analyzes the list of Siberian Yupik names for birds from Chukotka, Russia, from the unpublished "Dictionary of Traditional Subsistence Terminology of the Asiatic Yupik Eskimo" (n.d., 2010]), produced by the late Russian biologist Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya and Yupik language expert Lyudmila Ainana. It compares Bogoslovskaya and Ainana's list against other lists of Indigenous bird names compiled in Chukotka and among the nearby Native Alaskan groups in the Bering Strait area, and biological (Linnaean) bird nomenclatures for the same region. The sequence of collected Yupik bird name lists from the 1930s to the early 2000s reveals a strong correlation to the advancing language and knowledge shift, as the Chukotka Yupik were increasingly driven to bilingualism by the Russian-dominated speech environment, media, and school system. By the time ornithologists and linguists compiled the first Native lists of bird names, the Yupik in Chukotka had already lost certain layers of their traditional bird taxonomy, but some of its elements may be construed. As the loss of traditional names for birds continues, the Yupik actively borrow Russian terms (or English, in Alaska) to describe many bird species they encounter in their environment. NH-Anthropology NMNH |
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Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? |
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Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? |
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Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? |
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Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? |
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Études Inuit. Inuit Studies Krupnik, Igor. 2017. " Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions? ." Études Inuit. Inuit Studies . 41 (1-2):179. https://doi.org/10.7202/1061438ar 0701-1008 https://hdl.handle.net/10088/99353 152996 doi:10.7202/1061438ar |
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