Yuk, a. and n.
(jʊk)
[a. Yupik yuk, lit. ‘person’: see *Yuit n. (and a.).]
A dialect of Yupik.
| 1962 [see *Inuk n. (and a.) b]. 1967 W. H. Oswalt Alaskan Eskimos ii. 29 Speakers of Yuk and Cux can understand each other. 1977 Language LIII. 257/2 The twenty lessons of this book present conversations, drills, grammatical notes, and vocabularies, designed to teach the basic features of the Yuk dialect of Yupik Eskimo, as spoken in southwestern Alaska. |