Sirenik Eskimo language
Sirenik (local: Uqeghllistun, Russian: Sirenikski ) is the name of an Eskimo language, which must be regarded as extinct. She was up in 1997 by a woman Vyie (Russian Valentina Wye ), is fluent. It was an older, now deceased, a resident of the village Sireniki in Chukotka, a region in the northeast of the Russian Federation. Today's residents speak other Eskimo - Aleut languages or Russian.
Spoken in
- Eskimo - Aleut languages Sirenik
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Early as the late 19th century Sirenik found little regional use, with groups from outside was, for example, in Chukchi, communicates in a Paleo-Siberian language. However, there is evidence of two existing dialects.
Sirenik probably belonged to the Yupik language group, which occurs mainly in the area around the Bering Strait, but it may have also traded to the last representative of a third group of Eskimo- Aleut languages ( in addition to Yupik and Inuit ), because their assignment is not is clarified.