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Name: Central Alaskan Yup'ik Type: Language Alternate Names: Yupik, Central; Central Alaskan Yupik; Central Yupik; Yupik; Yup'ik (Central) Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 16,900 (2000 census). US Census (2000) counts those who use the language in the home. Ethnic population: 21,000 (1995 M. Krauss) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 20800 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 10000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: esu Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Subgroup: Western Eskimo; Yupik; Yup'ik; Yuit (yupi) Child Dialect Groups: General Central Alaskan Yup'ik; General Central Yupik; GCY (esu-gcy) Norton Sound; Norton Sound and Seward Peninsula Inuit; Yup'ik (Norton Sound); Unaliq; Unaligmiut (esu-nor) Child Dialects: Nunivak; Čux; Nuninagmiut (esu-nun) Egegik (esu-ege) Hooper Bay-Chevak; Yup'ik (Chevak) (esu-hoo) Brief Description: "Central Alaskan Yup'ik (the apostrophe denotes a long p) is the most vigorously surviving Native language in Alaska. Of a total population of about 21,000, 10,000 are speakers, and the language is still being acquired by children in 17 of the 68 villages in which it is spoken. Five regional dialects can be distinguished, one spoken by a majority of speakers and four minority dialects." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 12

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed