Chaplino dialect

Chaplino dialect
Уӈазиӷмит (Uŋazigmit)
Native to	Russia, United States
Region	Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Native speakers	1,200 (2010)
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Yupik Central Siberian Yupik Chaplino dialect
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Yupik
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	cent2128  Central Siberian Yupik

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 Chaplino (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.

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

Orthography

The Chaplino dialect alphabet now stands as follows:

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Ӷ ӷ	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж	З з
И и	Й й	К к	Ӄ ӄ	Л л	Лъ лъ	М м	Н н	Нъ нъ	Ӈ ӈ
О о	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у	Ў ў	Ф ф	Х х	Ӽ ӽ
Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

Bibliography

• Меновщиков, Г. А. (1988). Материалы и исследования по языку и фольклору чаплинских эскимосов [Materials on the language and folklore of the Eskimo] (in Russian). Leningrad: Наука. ISBN 5-02-027861-0.
• Меновщиков, Г. А. (1997). Языки мира. Палеоазиатские языки [Languages of the world. Paleoasian languages] (in Russian). Moscow: Индрик. pp. 75–81. ISBN 5-85759-046-9.