Chaplino dialect explained

Chaplino dialect
Nativename:Уӈазиӷмит (Uŋazigmit)
States:Russia, United States
Region:Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Date:2010
Familycolor:Eskimo-Aleut
Fam2:Eskimo
Fam3:Yupik
Fam4:Central Siberian Yupik
Ancestor:Proto-Eskimo–Aleut
Ancestor2:Proto-Eskimo
Ancestor3:Proto-Yupik
Script:Cyrillic
Notice:IPA
Glotto:cent2128
Isoexception:dialect

The Chaplino dialect (also known as Chaplinski dialect, Chaplinski Yupik, Eskimo Uŋaziq and Chaplinski language) is a dialect of the Central Siberian Yupik language spoken by the indigenous Eskimo people along the coast of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Far East, in the villages of Novoye Chaplino ("New Chaplino"), Provideniya, Uelkal and Sireniki. The Chaplino dialect is named after the village of (also known as "Old Chaplino"; native name is "Уӈазиӄ" (Uŋaziq), from уӈаӄ "whisker" + suffix -зиӄ/-сиӄ). The Chaplino dialect is spoken by the majority of Russian Yuits.[1]

The Chaplino dialect is close in lexicon and grammar to that of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik dialect ("Sivuqaghmiistun").[2]

Orthography

The Chaplino dialect alphabet now stands as follows:

А аБ бВ вГ гӶ ӷД дЕ еЁ ёЖ жЗ з
И иЙ йК кӃ ӄЛ лЛъ лъМ мН нНъ нъӇ ӈ
О оП пР рС сТ тУ уЎ ўФ фХ хӼ ӽ
Ц цЧ чШ шЩ щЪ ъЫ ыЬ ьЭ эЮ юЯ я

References

  1. Book: Thomas Sebeok . Native Languages of the Americas . 2013 . Springer Science & Business Media . 978-1-4757-1559-0 . 190 . New York.
  2. Book: Dirmid R. F. Collis . Arctic languages: An awakening . 1990 . Unesco . 978-92-3-102661-4 . 70 . Paris, France.

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