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Name: Pacific Yupik Alternate Names: Yupik, Pacific Gulf; Alutiiq; Sugpiak "Eskimo"; Sugpiaq "Eskimo"; Chugach "Eskimo"; Koniag-Chugach; Suk; Sugcestun; Aleut; South Alaska "Eskimo"; Yupik (Pacific Gulf ); šuk/suk Sugpiaq; Pacific Gulf Yupik; Sugpiaq; Yupik du golfe du Pacifique (in French); Yupí del Pacífico (in Spanish) Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 76 (2000 census). US Census (2000) counts those who use the language in the home. Ethnic population: 3,000 (1995 M. Krauss) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 200 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 400 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: ems Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Subgroup: Western Eskimo; Yupik; Yup'ik; Yuit (yupi) Brief Description: "Pacific Yupik (Alutiiq), spoken on the south coast of Alaska from the Alaska Peninsula to Prince William Sound, is a distinct language within the Yupik branch of Eskimo, although closely related to Central Alaskan Yup'ik. Speakers call themselves 'Aleuts' in English, reflecting the early Russian use of Aleuty to designate all of the native people of the south coast of Alaska; Alutiiq is the Pacific Yupik version of the same word, and Sugpiaq has also been used in recent decades. Two dialects of Pacific Yupik are distinguished, Koniag in the west (on the upper part of the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island) and Chugach in the east (on the Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound)." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20-21

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable