Chaplino dialect


The Chaplino dialect is a dialect of the Central Siberian Yupik language spoken by the indigenous Eskimo people along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and in the villages of Novoye Chaplino, Provideniya, Uelkal and Sireniki. The Chaplino dialect is named after the village of . The Chaplino dialect is spoken by the majority of Russian Yuits.
The Chaplino dialect is close in lexicon and grammar to that of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik dialect.

Orthography

The Chaplino dialect alphabet now stands as follows:
А аБ бВ вГ гӶ ӷД дЕ еЁ ёЖ жЗ з
И иЙ йК кӃ ӄЛ лЛъ лъМ мН нНъ нъӇ ӈ
О оП пР рС сТ тУ уЎ ўФ фХ хӼ ӽ
Ц цЧ чШ шЩ щЪ ъЫ ыЬ ьЭ эЮ юЯ я