Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a group of Eskimoan peoples inhabiting the southwest coastal areas of Alaska and extreme northeastern Siberia, particularly the central part of this range.
- noun The family of languages spoken by the Yupik.
- noun Any of the languages spoken by the Yupik.
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- proper noun A subbranch of the
Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. This is the only language family known to straddle both North America and Asia. It is centered squarely in Alaska and is thought to have migrated across to Siberia a few hundred years ago.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A Yupik friend reminds me Isabella is talking about a sense of community that might be hard for me to grasp, as someone who simply does not have a long, deep history with one place.
Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk Ellen Frankenstein 2010
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A Yupik friend reminds me Isabella is talking about a sense of community that might be hard for me to grasp, as someone who simply does not have a long, deep history with one place.
Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk Ellen Frankenstein 2010
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Abe David, my Yupik companion and outfitter started off with his machine to plot a GPS track off the mountain so we would be able to find our way while I skinned and loaded the animal onto the sled.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council was there along with Kimberly Williams, Executive Director of Nunumta Aulukestai "Keepers of the Land" in Yupik, an association of nine village corporations in south west Alaska and one of the leaders of the coalition in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska opposed to the Pebble Mine.
Joel Reynolds: Telling Rio Tinto To Stop the Mine in Bristol Bay Before It Starts Joel Reynolds 2011
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A Yupik friend reminds me Isabella is talking about a sense of community that might be hard for me to grasp, as someone who simply does not have a long, deep history with one place.
Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk Ellen Frankenstein 2010
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Abe David, my Yupik companion and outfitter started off with his machine to plot a GPS track off the mountain so we would be able to find our way while I skinned and loaded the animal onto the sled.
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A Yupik friend reminds me Isabella is talking about a sense of community that might be hard for me to grasp, as someone who simply does not have a long, deep history with one place.
Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk Ellen Frankenstein 2010
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The Natural Resources Defense Council was there along with Kimberly Williams, Executive Director of Nunumta Aulukestai "Keepers of the Land" in Yupik, an association of nine village corporations in south west Alaska and one of the leaders of the coalition in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska opposed to the Pebble Mine.
Joel Reynolds: Telling Rio Tinto To Stop the Mine in Bristol Bay Before It Starts Joel Reynolds 2011
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Morris Toolie, the president of the village corporation, said the community is facing many challenges—among them, the loss of language: The young adults today tend to understand Siberian Yupik but cannot speak it.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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It is affecting the very tapestry of family life; long evening family conversations, an important part of Yupik culture and history, are being supplanted by the tube, which seems to interest only the young.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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