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Preferred term

ysrSirenik Yupik  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Sirenik Yupik, Sireniki Yupik (also Old Sirenik or Vuteen), Sirenik or Sirenikskiy is an extinct Eskimo–Aleut language. It was spoken in and around the village of Sireniki (Сиреники) in Chukotka Peninsula, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The language shift has been a long process, ending in total language death. In January 1997 the last native speaker of the language, a woman named Vyie (Valentina Wye) died. Thus, the language is extinct: The endonym for the people itself is "Sirenikites"; the singular form is ).

Entry terms

  • Sirenik Eskimo language
  • Yupik, Sirenik

ISO 639-3 code

  • ysr

In other languages

  • Sirenikeg

    Breton

  • Sirenikgbe

    Ewe

  • Finnish

  • Sirenik

    German

  • Szirenyiki eszkimó nyelv

    Hungarian

  • Sirenik jupik

    Northern Frisian

  • Sirenik

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • Lenga yupik, sirenik

    Piedmontese

  • Сиреникский язык

    Russian

  • Idioma sirenik

    Spanish

  • Sirenik Yupikçesi

    Turkish

  • Сиреникысь юпик кыл

    Udmurt

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ysr

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