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Yupik may refer to:
- The Yupik peoples in general
- The Yupik languages in general
- The Siberian Yupik people
- The Siberian Yupik language (also known as Yuit or St. Lawrence Island Eskimo)
Yup'ik (with apostrophe) refers specifically to:
- The Central Alaskan Yup'ik people of western and southwestern Alaska who are speakers of Central Yup'ik
- The Central Alaskan Yup'ik language spoken in western and southwestern Alaska
- The Yup'ik syllabary, also known as the Yugtun script
Usage examples of "yupik".
The population of the town itself ran about three-fourths white, one-fourth Native, mostly Yupik, with some Inupiaq transplants from up north, some Aleut transplants from down south, and one lone Tlingit family that got sidetracked during a move from Sitka to Nome back in the fifties, homesteaded a hundred and sixty acres twenty miles up the Icky road, and never left.
The only difference was that present-day Yupik hunted from skiffs with outboard engines instead of kayaks, and four-wheelers and snow machines instead of dog sleds, and much of the time they did it commercially, for sale and not for subsistence.
I first heard from Mary Ann Chaney, who spent seven years of her childhood in Manokotak, a Yupik village forty miles west of Dillingham.
Whenever Van had to leave town on school business, he asked Yupik elder Simeon Bartman to take over his classes.
Come to think of it, his height should have been a dead giveaway--most Yupik men ranged between four-eight and five-five.
Both were Yupik in appearance: short, stocky, golden of skin, raven of hair, brown eyes tilted upward in the fashion of their Asian ancestors.
She spoke English slowly, with a heavy Yupik accent, but she was perfectly understandable.
An old Yupik man was there with a cardboard box full of soapstone carvings.