YUPIK, SIRENIK: a language of Russia (Asia)

The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.

SIL code: YSR

ISO 639-2: ypk

Population 1 fluent speaker (1995 M. Krauss). 
Region Chukot Peninsula, Sireniki village.
Alternate names   SIRENIK, SIRENIKSKI, OLD SIRENIK, VUTEEN
Classification Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Yupik, Siberian.
Comments The speaker is elderly (1996). Other Eskimo residents of Sirenik village now speak Central Siberian Yupik. Nearly extinct.

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