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Bookmark or Share- Central Alaskan Yupʼik - WikipediaCentral Alaskan Yupʼik (also rendered Yupik, [4] Central Yupik, [5] [6] or indigenously Yugtun) is one of the languages of the Yupik family, in turn a member of the Eskimo–Aleut language group, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska.
- Yup'ik - WikipediaThe Yupʼik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yupʼik, Central Yupʼik, Alaskan Yupʼik (own name Yupʼik sg Yupiik dual Yupiit pl; Russian: Юпики центральной Аляски), are an Indigenous people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yuk...
- Yugtun script - OmniglotThe Yugtun, or Alaska, script was devised in 1900 by Uyaquq (1860-1924), a Yup'ik shaman. He was inspired to create it after seeing English-speaking missionaries reading from religious texts, and being impressed that they could quote the texts using the same words every time.
- Yugtun script - WikipediaThe Yugtun or Alaska script is a syllabary invented around the year 1900 by Uyaquq to write the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. Uyaquq, who was monolingual in Yup'ik but had a son who was literate in English, [2] initially used Indigenous pictograms as a form of proto-writing that served as a mnemonic in preaching the Bible.
- Alaska Native Language ResourcesYugtun is the indigenous word for the language known as Central Yup'ik in English. This app includes a Yugtun/English and English/Yugtun dictionary, as well as a Yugtun to English tool that parses Yugtun words to show the meaning of each element.
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