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Central Siberian Yupik belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut language family, and within that, to the Eskimo branch. Within the Eskimo branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family, there are two more branches: Yupik, and Inuit-Inupiaq. Central Siberian Yupik, along with Naukanski, Sireniki, and Central Alaskan Yupik, belong to the Yupik branch of the Eskimo branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family:

Eskimo-Aleut Central Siberian Yupik is spoken mostly on the St. Lawrence Island. There are approximately 1,200 speakers still around today, concentrated in two villages on the island: Gambell, and Savoonga.
 * Aleut (ale)
 * Western [Atkan (<100 speakers); Attuan (<100 speakers); Possibly a third dialect before the 20th century(now extinct) (?)]
 * Eastern (~150 speakers)
 * Eskimo
 * Yupik
 * Naukanski (<100 speakers)
 * Sireniki (<10 speakers)
 * Central Siberian Yupik (ess) (Chaplinski) (~1,200 speakers worldwide)
 * Alaskan Yupik (?) (~10,000 speakers worldwide)
 * Pacific Yupik (ems) (dialects: Kodiak, Alaskan Peninsula subdialect) (~200 speakers worldwide)
 * Central Alaskan Yupik (esu) (dialects: Norton Sound/Unaliq, Hooper Bay-Chevak, Nunivak Central Yupik, General Central Yupik, Aglurmiut) (~10,000 speakers worldwide)
 * Inuit-Inupiaq (esk) (Made up of a number of related dialects, arguably split into 4 regions)

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Table 1: Central Siberian Yupik Consonants

*listed as voiced/unvoiced

Table 2: Central Siberian Yupik Vowels

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Morphology Syntax
 * Central Siberian Yupik is a polysynthetic language. In it, words are formed as follows:
 * Word =  Base + Postbases + Ending + Enclitics
 * Example Words:
 * Mangteghangllaq = ‘Making a house!’
 * Neqangisagllagmi = ‘in a time of famine’
 * Central Siberian Yupik’s word order is heavily influenced by discourse considerations.
 * De Reuse claims that this is common for case-marking polysynthetic languages like CSY
 * De Reuse claims that clauses do not often contain both a subject and an object, but each of them usually appear with verbs in the following order:
 * SV                                                            OV
 * At the same time, de Reuse says that VS and VO are also very common.