Yuit

E1034885

Yuit is the self-designation of the Central Siberian Yupik people, an Indigenous group native to the Bering Strait region of Siberia and Alaska.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yuit canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
ethnic group
borderRegion Bering Strait
climateZone polar climate
subarctic climate
continent Asia
North America
country Russian Federation
linked to: Russia

United States of America
culturalContinuityAcross Russia–United States border
culturalHeritage mythology and folklore
oral tradition
culturalPractice drum dancing
kayak use
skin-boat (umiak) use
throat singing
culturalRegion Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

Subarctic
ethnolinguisticGroup Eskimo–Aleut peoples
ethnonymLanguage Central Siberian Yupik language
exonym Central Siberian Yupik
hasAutonym Yuit
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script

Latin alphabet
languageSpoken Central Siberian Yupik language
modernReligion Russian Orthodox Christianity
nativeToRegion Alaska
Bering Strait region
linked to: Bering region

Siberia
partOf Yupik peoples
recognizedAsIndigenousIn Russia
United States
relatedEthnicGroup Alaskan Yupik
linked to: Yupik languages

Inuit
Siberian Yupik
religion animism
shamanism
selfDesignationOf Central Siberian Yupik people
traditionalEconomy subsistence economy
traditionalHousing semi-subterranean houses
snow houses (seasonal)
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
marine mammal hunting
reindeer herding
traditionalTerritory Chukotka Peninsula
St. Lawrence Island

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