Central Alaskan Yupik language

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The Central Alaskan Yupik language is part of the Yupik division of the Eskimo languages, spoken in southwestern Alaska. The term "Yupik" itself means "authentic person" in the Central Alaskan Yupik language. This language family is part of the larger Eskimo-Aleut stock, which is considered isolated from other language families. The Yupik languages are distinct from the Inuit languages, though both are part of the Eskimo division. Central Alaskan Yupik is one of five Yupik languages, and it is spoken along the Bering Sea coast of Alaska.1234

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Eskimo-Aleut languages
Yupik
…“real person,” includes five languages: Central Alaskan Yupik (Yugtun), spoken southward from Norton Sound; Pacific Yupik, called Alutiiq, Sugcestun, and Sugpiaq, spoken from the Alaska Peninsula eastward to Prince William Sound; Naukan (Naukanski Siberian Yupik), whose speakers were resettled southward from Cape Dezhnyov, the easternmost point of the Eurasian landmass;…
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…“real person,” includes five languages: Central Alaskan Yupik (Yugtun), spoken southward from Norton Sound; Pacific Yupik, called Alutiiq, Sugcestun, and Sugpiaq, spoken from the Alaska Peninsula eastward to Prince William Sound; Naukan (Naukanski Siberian Yupik), whose speakers were resettled southward from Cape Dezhnyov, the easternmost point of the Eurasian landmass;…
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