page_title: Chevak Cupꞌik dialect
section_title: Russian loanwords
hierarchical_section_title: Chevak Cupꞌik dialect / Russian loanwords
caption_attribution_description: English: Hooper Bay youth, 1930. Français&#160;: Adolescent Hooper Bay, 1930. Norsk nynorsk: Gut frå Hooper Bay i Alaska (Foto: Edward S. Curtis, 1930).
context_page_description: Chevak Cupʼik or just Cupʼik is a subdialect of Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect of Yupʼik spoken in southwestern Alaska in the Chevak by Chevak Cupʼik Eskimos. The speakers of the Chevak subdialect used for themselves as Cupʼik, but the speakers of the Hooper Bay subdialect used for themselves as Yupʼik, as in the Yukon-Kuskokwim dialect.
  The Central Alaskan Yupik who in the village of Chevak call themselves Cupʼik, whereas those who live on Nunivak Island call themselves Cupʼig, the spelling differences serving as a self-designated cultural identifier between the two groups. In both dialects, the consonant Yupʼik c is pronounced as an English ch. The Cupʼik dialect is readily distinguished from other dialects of Yupʼik in the pronunciation of Yupʼik "y" sounds as "ch" sounds, and by some fundamental differences in the basic vocabulary.
  The oldest fully bilingual person in Chevak is Leo Moses, born in 1933; there are few if any persons born after 1945 who do not speak English.
  The first documentation of the Hooper Bay-Chevak dialect is found in the unpublished notes of Jesuit priests residing ay Hooper Bay and Kashunuk in the 1920s and 1930s.
context_section_description: The Russian loanwords used in Chevak Cupʼik date from the period of the Russian America (1733–1867).
  caarralaq (< Rus. сахар) 'sugar'
  caayuq  (< Rus. чай) 'tea'
  caanik (< Rus. чайник) 'tea kettle'
  capʼakiq ( < Rus. сапоги) 'shoe'
  cassʼaq (< Rus. часы) 'clock'
  culunaq (?< Rus. солонина 'salted meat') 'salted fish'
  kalantaassaq (< Rus. карандаш) 'pencil'
  kalmaaniq (< Rus. карман) 'pocket'
  kelipaq (< Rus. хлеб) 'bread'
  luussitaq (< Rus. лошадь) 'horse'
  massʼlaq (< Rus. масло) 'butter; margarine'
  missuulleq (< Rus. мешок) 'burlap sack'
  mulukʼuuq (< Rus. молоко) 'milk'
  multʼuuq (< Rus. молоток) 'hammer'
  palʼtuuk (< Rus. пальто) 'coat; jacket'
  pelatekaq (< Rus. палатка) 'tent'
  putuskaq (< Rus. подушка) 'pillow'
  spickaq : (< Rus. спичка) 'match'
  tiititsaaq / tiissitsaaq (< Rus. тысяча) 'thousand; one thousand dollars'
  yaassiik : (< Rus. ящик) 'box; cardboard box'
caption: Hooper Bay youth, 1930
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