Naukan Yupik language or Naukan Siberian Yupik language () is a critically endangered Eskaleut language spoken by c. 70 Naukan persons (нывуӄаӷмит) on the Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik languages, along with Central Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Pacific Gulf Yupik.
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.
Morphology Chart example of the oblique case:
Case singular dual plural Locative mi ɣni ni Abl. / Instr. məɣ ɣnəɣ nəɣ Allative mun ɣnun nun Vialis kun ɣkun təkun Aequalis tun ɣtun tətun
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory gemination in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, *ŋ was often dropped within morphemes except when next to *ə. *ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ, ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and *ana becomes ii in these areas.
Numerals ataasiq 1 aghvinelek 6 atghanelek 11 akimiaq ataasimeng 16 maalghut 2 maalghugneng aghvinelek 7 maalghugneng atghanelek 12 akimiaq maalghugneng 17 pingayut 3 pingayuneng aghvinelek 8 pingayuneng atghanelek 13 akimiaq pingayuneng 18 sitamat 4 qulngughutngilnguq 9 akimiaghutngilnguq 14 yuinaghutngilnguq 19 tallimat 5 qulmeng 10 akimiaq 15 yuinaq 20
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