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Neighboring peoples / Contacts / Classification [related to other Eskimos and neighboring peoples]
[edit]Chukchi
[edit]Influenced by.[1]
Sireniki Eskimos
[edit]Also Sireniki Eskimos live in that area, but their former languge shows many peculiarities among Eskimo languages. It is even mutually unintelligible with the neighboring Siberian Yupik languages. In the past, Sireniki Eskimos had even to resort using Chukchi (an unrelated language) as lingua franca for communication with their own language relatives.[2] Moreover, the mere classification of Sireniki Eskimo language is not settled yet: it is either classified as belonging to the Yupik branch,[3] or as a standalonere third branch of Eskimo languages.[4][5][6][7] Sireniki Eskimo language has recently become extinct, after a long language shift in favor for Russian and Siberian Yupik, ending in total language death of their former language.
Yupik of Alaska
[edit]Mutually intelligible. Regular contacts (relaxing from the Cold War till the opening).
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pusztay 1990: 46
- ^ Menovshchikov 1990: 70
- ^ Ethnologue Report for Eskimo-Aleut
- ^ Representing genealogical relations of (among others) Eskimo-Aleut languages by tree: Alaska Native Languages (found on the site of Alaska Native Language Center)
- ^ Lawrence Kaplan: Comparative Yupik and Inuit (found on the site of Alaska Native Language Center)
- ^ Linguist List's description about Nikolai Vakhtin's book: The Old Sirinek Language: Texts, Lexicon, Grammatical Notes. The author's untransliterated (original) name is “Н.Б. Вахтин”.
- ^ Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka by Nikolai Vakhtin
References
[edit]- Menovshchikov, Georgy (= Г. А. Меновщиков) (1990). "Contemporary Studies of the Eskimo-Aleut Languages and Dialects: A Progress Report" (PDF). In Dirmid R. F. Collis (ed.). Arctic Languages. An Awakening. Vendôme: UNESCO. pp. 69–76. ISBN 92-3-102661-5.
- Pusztay, János (1990). Nyelvek bölcsőjénél. Kérdőjel (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-5510-7. Translation of the title: At the cradle of languages.