Yup'ikとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Yup'ik Yup'ik (“real person”), from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣpiɣ, from *iŋuɣ (“human, person”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːpɪk/
• 韻: -uːpɪk

名詞

Yup'ik (複数形 Yup'iks または Yup'ik)

1. (ethnology) A member of an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska.

同意語

• Central Alaskan Yupik
• Central Yupik
• West Alaska Eskimo

固有名詞

Yup'ik

1. (linguistics) A language of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
2. (linguistics) A subbranch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. This is the only language family known to straddle both North America and Asia. It is centered squarely in Alaska and is thought to have migrated across to Siberia a few hundred years ago.

下位語

• Alutiiq
• Yup'ik
• Central Siberian Yupik
• Naukanski

参考

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yup'ik terms
• Wikipedia article on Yup’ik

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Pacific Gulf Yupik, ems ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Yup'ik, esu ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Central Siberian Yupik, ess ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Naukan Yupik, ynk ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Sirenik Yupik, ysr ⁠ (extinct)