| 释义 |
Yupik, a. and n.|ˈjuːpɪk|
[See quot. 19511.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Siberia and Alaska, or the speakers of it.
B. n. This language.
1951M. Swadesh Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Ling. Apr. 69/1 The phonologic material shows an unmistakable cleavage between two groups of dialects which may be conveniently called the Yupic and Inupik divisions by reference to their treatment of the root for human being (juk versus inuk; these are the words for real person in Kuskokwim and Barrow respectively). Ibid. 70/2 The dichotomy between Yupik and Inupik is clear and geographically abrupt. Ibid., We find nothing in the [Wales] dialect which minimizes the depth of its separation from Yupik Eskimo. 1967W. H. Oswalt Alaskan Eskimos p. xiv, In Alaska two languages, Inupik and Yupik are spoken. Ibid. iv. 115 The Yupik speakers..would be expected to have had a greater long-term stability than the Inuit. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 963/2 In 1961 a program was started..with the active participation of Yupik Eskimos, for working out a systematic Eskimo orthography in the Roman alphabet. Ibid., Greenlandic ûvoq..is related to the Asian Yupik form ugu-. 1977New Yorker 20 June 55/2 The big river delivers the wood to the Yupik Esimos of the western coast. 1980M. E. Krauss Alaska Native Languages App. ii. 91 There is..the well known sharp division between Yupik and what we in Alaska usually call Inupiaq. Ibid. 103 With a dense and increasing population, almost entirely Yupik, the Yupik language remained..strong. |