Sireniks

Extinct Siberian language Ethnic group SireniksSirenik Yupik: сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷийRegions with significant populationsSireniki, RussiaLanguagesSiberian Yupik, Russian, formerly SirenikReligionformerly shamanism Sirenik or Sireniki (Sirenik Yupik: сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷий Sirenik Yupik pronunciation: [siˈʁənəɣˈməːʁij]) are an Eskaleut-speaking ethnic group of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and former speakers of a divergent Eskimo-Aleut language in Siberia, before its extinction in 1997. The total language death of this language means that now the cultural identity of Sirenik Yupik is maintained through other aspects: slight dialectal difference in the adopted Siberian Yupik language; sense of place, including appreciation of the antiquity of their settlement Sirenik. Location At the beginning of the 20th century, speakers of the Sirenik language inhabited the settlements of Sirenik, Imtuk, and some small villages stretching to the west from Sirenik along south-eastern coasts of the Chukchi Peninsula. As early as in 1895, Imtuk was already a settlement with mixed population of Sirenik Yupik and Ungazigmit (the latter belonging to Siberian Yupik). Language The Yup