Naukan Yupik language
or Naukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered
Eskimo language
The Eskaleut (), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in the family are indigenous to parts of w ...
spoken by ca. 70
Naukan persons (''нывуӄаӷмит'') on the
Chukotka peninsula
The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; russian: Чуко́тский полуо́стров, ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form russian: Чуко́тка, ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the eastern ...
. It is one of the four
Yupik languages
The Yupik languages () 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 ...
, along with
Central Siberian Yupik,
Central Alaskan Yup'ik and
Pacific Gulf Yupik.
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.
Morphology
Chart example of the
oblique case
In grammar, an oblique ( abbreviated ; from la, casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr. ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case, and sometimes, the vocative.
A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role ex ...
:
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory
gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (), or consonant lengthening (from Latin 'doubling', itself from '' gemini'' 'twins'), is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct from ...
in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, the ŋ is often dropped within morphemes except when next to ə. ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ,ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and "ana" goes to "ii" in theses areas.
Numerals
# ataasiq
# maalghut
# pingayut
# sitamat
# tallimat
# aghvinelek
# maalghugneng aghvinelek
# pingayuneng aghvinelek
# qulngughutngilnguq
# qulmeng
# atghanelek
# maalghugneng atghanelek
# pingayuneng atghanelek
# akimiaghutngilnguq
# akimiaq
# akimiaq ataasimeng
# akimiaq maalghugneng
# akimiaq pingayuneng
# yuinaghutngilnguq
# yuinaq
Notes
References
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Languages of Russia
Endangered Eskaleut languages
Yupik languages
Siberian Yupik
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