Yuitn.adj.

1881 Amer. Naturalist Nov. 865 The Chau-Chū women never marryYūit.

1967 W. H. Oswalt Alaskan Eskimos x. 250 They [sc. the Inuit] were less successful in their inland penetration than were the Yuit.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 1126/2 A western subculture area, which coincides closely with the Alaskan regions, including the Aleuts and also the Siberian Eskimo (Yuit) on the northeast tip of Siberia.

2003 G. Salisbury & L. Salisbury Cruelest Miles vi. 113 Alaska Eskimos include both ‘Inuit’ or Inupiat speakers, and ‘Yuit’ or Yupik speakers. Almost two thirds of Alaska Eskimos areYuit.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Yuit.

1962 M. Swadesh in Amer. Anthropologist 64 1268 Some perspective is gained on the Eskimo side by the existence of a number of dialects falling into at least two distinct languages, Alaska–Siberia, called Yuit or Yuk or Yupik, and Alaska–Canada–Greenland, called Inuit, Inuk, or Inupik.

1984 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians V. 51/2 Three languages, known collectively as Siberian Yupik, Asiatic Eskimo, or Yuit,..are clearly distinguished.

1996 H. van der Voort in S. A. Wurm et al. Atlas Langs. Intercult. Communication II. ii. cxvi. 1075/1 Policies of forced shift from Yuit to Russian have led to age groups that speak neither language fluently.

1881 Amer. Naturalist Nov. 864 Shishmareff saw at both St. Lawrence and Mechigme bays, people of the Yūit race.

1967 W. H. Oswalt Alaskan Eskimos x. 251 Numerous Yuit traits were not present among the Inuit.

1992 A. Lynge in F. Griffiths Arctic Alternatives vii. 94 The vice-president of the Soviet Council of Ministers..agreed to send Yuit representatives to the next ICC general assembly in Sisimiut, Greenland, in 1989.