Yup'ik
Chuck Hunt (1944–2000), USFWS employee
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 34,000 (2010 U.S. Census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 United States (Alaska) |
34,000 |
| Languages | |
| Yup'ik (and dialects: Cup’ik, Cup'ig), English | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Moravian Protestant, Jesuit Catholic, Russian Orthodox) and Shamanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Siberian Yupik, Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq, Naukan, Iñupiat, Inuit, Aleut | |
The Yup'ik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Central Yup'ik, Alaskan Yup'ik (own name Yup'ik sg Yupiik dual Yupiit pl), are an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (including living on Nelson and Nunivak Islands) and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik Bay. They are also known as Cup'ik by the Chevak Cup'ik dialect-speaking Eskimos of Chevak and Cup'ig for the Nunivak Cup'ig dialect-speaking Eskimo of Nunivak Island.
Both Chevak Cup'ik and Nunivak Cup'ig Eskimos are also known as Cup'ik. The Yup'ik, Cup'ik, and Cup'ig speakers can converse without difficulty, and the regional population is often described using the larger term of Yup'ik. They are one of the four Yupik peoples of Alaska and Siberia, closely related to the Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq (Pacific Yupik) of south-central Alaska, the Siberian Yupik of St. Lawrence Island and Russian Far East, and the Naukan of Russian Far East. The Yupiit speak the Yup'ik language. Of a total population of about 21,000 people, about 10,000 speak the language.
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