NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Siberian Yupik

Siberian Yupik are an indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and the St. Lawrence Island of Alaska. They are related to the other Yupik in Russia and Alaska.

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Yupik language at AllExperts (879 words)
	The Yupik languages are in the family of Eskimo-Aleut languages.
	The Yupik languages, like other Eskimo-Aleut languages, represent a particular type of agglutinative language called a polysynthetic language: it "synthesizes" a root and various grammatical affixes to create long words with sentence-like meanings.
	The Yupik languages were not written until the arrival of Europeans around the beginning of the 19th century.

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