{{Short description|Eskimo–Aleut language spoken in Russia}} {{Infobox language | name = Naukan Yupik | nativename = {{lang|ynk|Нывуӄаӷмистун}} <br> {{tlit|ynk|Nuvuqaghmiistun}} | states = Russian Federation | region = Bering Strait region (or Chukchi Peninsula) | ethnicity = 450 Naukan people (2010)<ref>{{Ethnologue19|ynk|Naukan Yupik}}</ref> | speakers = 60, 13% of ethnic population | date = 2010 | ref = e23 | familycolor = Eskimo-Aleut | fam2 = Eskimo | fam3 = Yupik | ancestor = Proto-Eskimo–Aleut | ancestor2 = Proto-Eskimo | ancestor3 = Proto-Yupik | iso3 = ynk | glotto = nauk1242 | glottorefname = Naukan Yupik | map = Asian Siberian Yupik Eskimo map.svg | mapcaption = Naukan Yupik settlements (magenta dots) | map2 = Lang Status 20-CR.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center|Naukan Yupik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO ''Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger''.}} | script = Cyrillic | nation = {{flag|Russia}} * {{flag|Chukotka}} (in Chukchi Peninsula) }}
'''Naukan Yupik language'''<ref name=intermedA>{{harvnb|Jacobson|2005}}</ref> or '''Naukan Siberian Yupik language''' ({{Langx|ynk|Нывуӄаӷмистун|Nuvuqaghmiistun}}) is a critically endangered Eskaleut language spoken by c. 70 Naukan persons (''нывуӄаӷмит'') on the Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, along 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.<ref name=intermedB>{{harvnb|Jacobson|2005|p=150}}</ref>
==Morphology== Chart example of the oblique case:
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Case !! singular !! dual !! plural |- ! Locative | mi || ɣni || ni |- ! Abl. / Instr. | məɣ || ɣnəɣ || nəɣ |- ! Allative | mun || ɣnun || nun |- ! Vialis | kun || ɣkun || təkun |- ! Aequalis | tun || ɣtun || tətun |}
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ''ʀ'' to drop with compensatory gemination in Inu. Initial ''m'' reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial ''n'' (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, *ŋ was often dropped within morphemes except when next to *ə. *ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ, ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and *ana becomes ''ii'' in these areas.
==Numerals== {| class="wikitable" |- | ataasiq ! 1 | aghvinelek ! 6 | atghanelek ! 11 | akimiaq ataasimeng ! 16 |- | maalghut ! 2 | maalghugneng aghvinelek ! 7 | maalghugneng atghanelek ! 12 | akimiaq maalghugneng ! 17 |- | pingayut ! 3 | pingayuneng aghvinelek ! 8 | pingayuneng atghanelek ! 13 | akimiaq pingayuneng ! 18 |- | sitamat ! 4 | qulngughutngilnguq ! 9 | akimiaghutngilnguq ! 14 | yuinaghutngilnguq ! 19 |- | tallimat ! 5 | qulmeng ! 10 | akimiaq ! 15 | yuinaq ! 20 |}
==Notes== {{reflist|2}}
==References== * {{citation |last=Jacobson |first=Steven A. |title=History of the Naukan Yupik Eskimo dictionary with implications for a future Siberian Yupik dictionary |journal=Études/Inuit/Studies |year=2005 |volume=29 |issue=1–2 |url=http://www.erudit.org/revue/etudinuit/2005/v29/n1-2/013937ar.pdf}} * {{citation |last=Fortescue |first=M. D. |last2=Jacobson |first2=S. A. |last3=Kaplan |first3=L. D. |title=Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates |location=Fairbanks |publisher=Alaska Native Language Center |year=1994}} {{incubator|ynk}} {{Eskimo-Aleut languages}}
Category:Indigenous languages of Siberia Category:Endangered Eskaleut languages Category:Yupik languages Category:Siberian Yupik
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