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Name: St. Lawrence Island Yupik Type: Dialect Alternate Names: Yupik, Central Siberian; St. Lawrence Island "Eskimo"; Bering Strait Yupik; Yoit; Yuk; Yuit; Siberian Yupik; Asiatic Yupik; Yupik (Siberian); Yupik (St. Lawrence Island); Central Siberian Yupik; Chaplinski; Chaplino; Chaplino-Naukan; Chaplino-Naukanski (East Cape); Esselen Spoken in: USA, Russia Number of speakers: 830 in United States (2000 census). US Census (2000) counts those who use the language in the home. Population total all countries: 1,130. Ethnic population: 1,050 in USA (1995 Krauss) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 1200 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1350 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: ess Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Dialect: St. Lawrence Island Yupik; Yupik, Central Siberian; St. Lawrence Island "Eskimo"; Bering Strait Yupik; Yoit; Yuk; Yuit; Siberian Yupik; Asiatic Yupik; Yupik (Siberian); Yupik (St. Lawrence Island); Central Siberian Yupik; Chaplinski; Chaplino; Chaplino-Naukan; Chaplino-Naukanski (East Cape); Esselen (ess) Brief Description: "Central Siberian Yupik is a spoken in Alaska in two villages on St. Lawrence Island, Gambell and Savoonga. Almost the entire adult population (1,200 on the island, about 200 more in Nome and Anchorage) speaks the language, although a decreasing number of children acquire it as their first language. The St. Lawrence Island dialect is nearly identical to the Yupik spoken on the Chukotka Peninsula on the Russian side of the Bering Strait, largely concentrated in the villages of Novoye Chaplino, Sireniki, Provideniya, and Uel'kal'. There are about 300 Russian speakers of Central Siberian Yupik in a population of about 900, none under 30." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 12

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed