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Where was Naukan Yupik traditionally spoken?
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Naukan (Naukanski Siberian Yupik) was traditionally spoken in the area around Cape Dezhnyov, which is the easternmost point of the Eurasian landmass on the Chukchi Peninsula. Speakers of this language were later resettled southward from that region.12