1. Family: Eskimo-Aleut
  2. Genus: Eskimo

Yupik (Siberian)

WALS coordinates: 65° N, 173° W

spoken in Russia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Yupik (Central Siberian)
    Other:
    • Siberian Yup'ik,
    • Yupik (Siberian),
    • Siberian Yupik
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately large
    Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone No tones
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Nominal Categories
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Simple Clauses
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5
    Green and Blue Green/blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow