Yupik languages

Yupik
Ethnicity	Yupik peoples
Geographic distribution	Alaska, Chukotka
Linguistic classification	Eskaleut Eskimo Yupik
Subdivisions	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik? †
ISO 639-2 / 5	ypk
Glottolog	yupi1267

The Yupik languages (/ˈjuːpɪk/^[1]) are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka. The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one of the languages may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages. One of them, Sirenik, has been extinct since 1997.

The Yupik languages are in the family of Eskaleut languages. The Aleut and Proto-Eskimoan diverged around 2000 BCE; within the Proto-Eskimoan classification, the Yupik languages diverged from each other and from the Inuit languages around 1000 CE.