Naukan language

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Naukan
Spoken in	Russian Federation
Region	Bering Strait region
Total speakers	approximately 70
Language family	Eskimo Yupik Naukan
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	ynk
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Naukan is an Eskimo language spoken by ca. 70 persons on Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, alongside 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.^[1]

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[edit] References

• Jacobson, Steven A. (2005), "History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary", Études/Inuit/Studies 29 (1–2), http://www.erudit.org/revue/etudinuit/2005/v29/n1-2/013937ar.pdf 

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• Ethnologue

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