Sirenik
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Sirenik (proper name Uqeghllistun , Russian сиреникский язык , sirenikski jasyk ) is the name of an Eskimo language that must be considered extinct . In 1997, the last person to speak the language fluently, Valentina Wyje (Russian Валентина Выйе ) died. She was a resident of the village of Sireniki on the Chukchi Peninsula ( Chukchi Autonomous Okrug ) in the far northeast of the Russian Federation . The language is named after the place. Today's residents speak other Eskimo-Aleut languages or Russian.
By the end of the 19th century, sirenik was not used much regionally, with outside groups, for example, in Chukchi - a paleo-Siberian language. However, there are references to two existing dialect variants .
Sirenik probably belonged to the Yupik language group, which occurs mainly in the Bering Strait area ; but it may also have been the last representative of a third group of Eskimo languages (besides Yupik and Inuktitut / Inuit ), as their assignment has not yet been clarified.
Remarks
- ↑ Eskimo-Aleutische Sprachen , Holst (2005), p. 139 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ a b Endangered Languages (PDF; 90 kB), Vakhtin (1998), p. 159 ff.
literature
- Jan Henrik Holst: Introduction to the Eskimo-Aleut languages. Buske-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-87548-386-4 .
- Nikolai Vakhtin: Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka. In: Erich Kasten (Ed.): Bicultural Education in the North: Ways of Preserving and Enhancing Indigenous Peoples' Languages and Traditional Knowledge. Waxmann-Verlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-89325-651-8 , pp. 159-173 ( online edition ).
Web links
- Siberia Cultural Foundation - Digital Library and Collections