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Yupik
[ yoo-pik ]
noun
, plural Yu·piks, (especially collectively) Yu·pik
- a member of any of several Indigenous peoples inhabiting western coastal Alaska from Prince William Sound north to Norton Sound, and St. Lawrence Island and the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula of Siberia.
- any of the Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken by the Yupik.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Yupik1
First recorded in 1950–55; from Central Alaskan Yup'ik Yup'ik, a self-designation, equivalent to yuk “human being, person” + -pik “real”
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