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What does Yupik mean?

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Proper noun
  1. 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.
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However, the indigenous peoples of Alaska include the Yupik and the Aleuts, both of whom are distinct from the Inuit.
Although they too have had to go through many extreme lifestyle changes, Yupik are now the most dominant Aboriginal group in Alaska.
Speakers of Yupik inhabit a region consisting of southwestern Alaska and Siberia.
However, some Yupik live much as their ancestors did, by hunting walrus, moose and caribou, although usually with the help of modern technology.
Today, Arctic peoples from different regions speak their own dialects of Inuktitut, Yupik and Inupiaq languages.
The Yupik live along the eastern shore of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia and on Saint Lawrence Island in Alaska.

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