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Yup is a slang word for yes, see Yes and no. Yup may also refer to: YUP (band), a Finnish rock band "Yup" (song), a 2015 song by Easton Corbin; Yukpa language (ISO 639:yup), spoken in Venezuela and Colombia; An abbreviation for Yellowdog Updater; Yale University Press; Young Urban Professional (see Yuppie
(Yup, philia sounds a bit like Philadelphia, a.k.a., the city of brotherly love, for a reason, Beaulieu notes.) The word dates back to the seventh or eighth century B.C.E. and is a “generic term ...
Yupʼik (plural Yupiit) comes from the Yupik word yuk meaning "person" plus the post-base -pik meaning "real" or "genuine". Thus, it literally means "real people." [10] The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the Yupʼik people or their language as Yuk or Yuit.
The use of the apostrophe in the name Yup'ik is a written convention to denote the long pronunciation of the p sound; but it is spoken the same in other Yupik languages. Of all the Alaska Native languages, Central Alaskan Yup'ik has the most speakers, with about 10,000 of a total Yup'ik population of 21,000 still speaking the language. The five ...
Yupʼik comes from the Yupʼik word yuk, meaning 'person', plus the postbase-pik (or -piaq), meaning 'real' or 'genuine'; thus, Yupʼik literally means 'real person'. [6] The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the Yupʼik people or their language as Yuk or Yuit .
“Yup, I pleaded a strong case that Wanda Wilson was a stunning blonde, no scars and Marvel thought that was a cool idea. Invoked Blake on GG and they gave me the thumbs up,” he continued ...
The Yup'ik language goes by various names. Since it is a geographically central member of the Yupik languages and is spoken in Alaska, the language is often referred to as Central Alaskan Yupik (for example, in Miyaoka's 2012 grammar of the language).
Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas. Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", [1] [2] is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. [3]