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Yup'ik tribes constantly raided each other and destroyed villages, These wars ultimately ended in the 1830s and 1840s with the establishment of Russian colonialism. [ 11 ] Before a Russian colonial presence emerged in the area, the Aleut and Yupik spent most of their time sea-hunting animals such as seals, walruses, and sea lions.
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.
Yup'ik is typically considered to have five dialects: Norton Sound, General Central Yup'ik, Nunivak, Hooper Bay-Chevak, and the extinct Egegik dialect. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] All extant dialects of the language are mutually intelligible , albeit with phonological and lexical differences that sometimes cause difficulty in cross-dialectal comprehension.
(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 ...
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 ...
The Yupik languages (/ ˈ juː p ɪ k / [1]) are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka.The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one of the languages may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages.
Every word must have only one root (free morpheme) always at the beginning. [12] Eskaleut languages have a relatively small number of roots: in the case of Central Alaskan Yup'ik, around two thousand. [13] Following the root are a number of postbases, which are bound morphemes that add to the basic meaning of the root.
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