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

Yupik (Siberian)

WALS coordinates: 65° N, 173° W

spoken in Russia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately large Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio High Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants Uvular stops and continuants Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical Nominal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green/blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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