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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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Eskimo-Aleut languages and dialects |
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| Inuit* |
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*The Inuit language is a continuum of dialects, but while people can understand the dialects closest to them, it becomes harder the further away they are.
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**Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate Eskimo branch, and not under Yupik.
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