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Nov 27, 2009
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Yu•pik



Pronunciation: (yOO'pik), [key]
n.
1. a member of any of three groups of Eskimos 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.
2. any of the Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken by the Yupik.

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