Siberian Yupik

Siberian Yupik (Yuit, self-naming: Yupikhyt, Yuhyt) are an indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and the St. Lawrence Island of Alaska. They speak Central Siberian Yupik, a Yupik language related to the other Yupik in Russia and Alaska.

Related Topics:
Chukchi Peninsula - Northeast - St. Lawrence Island - Yupik language - Yupik - Russia - Alaska

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They were also known as Asian or Siberian Eskimo. The name Yuit (???, plural: ????) was officially assigned to them in 1931, at the brief time of the campaign of support of indigenous cultures in the Soviet Union.

Related Topics:
Eskimo - 1931 - Soviet Union

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