Kassauyukluten

Laren Thomas is a reading and Yup'ik language teacher in Chevak. He grew up in Anchorage and learned Yup'ik from Marie Meade at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Interview by Ossie Kairaiuak

[@ryanchon8702]

learning a Native American language as a non-native speaker to this degree of fluency is very impressive!

[@XxChurchxX36]

I'm jealous. I'm gonna go to Alaska next year to learn my native language and how to live in the traditional way.

[@wcbpolish]

Amazing! I lived in Chefornak for two years and picked up a couple of random words, and although I don't speak the language, he sounds fluent. I hear that's quite an accomplishment for a Kass'aq. Quyana Cakneq!

[@palmapanfu]

Such a beautiful language. Structure similar to Chukchi.

[@todoaguchak86]

There's that one that used to work in Bethel Grant Air surprised me to, he spoke yuggtuun to.

[@b01tact10n]

Pretty Kewl, looks like he's starting to think in yupik first then translates in his head to speak what he's saying in English, I'm very happy people learning to speak my first Language, I can understand him very clearly 😁

[@aliciaballesteros-mitchell1059]

Im yup'ik, but i grew up in and live in washington. my grandmother is the only person in my family who still speaks it, but she lives too far away to teach me. right now im trying to learn some in memrise, but i was wondering if anyone knows any other yup'ik learning sources?

[@ungazik]

Jacobson, Steven A.: A practical grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo language. I am learning from the same author, but from another book of him, written about a different Yupik language (St Lawrence Island Yupik).

[@buttclef]

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!!!

[@bubblesmcfarlane]

i want to learn yup'ik so bad!!!

[@andsusul]

Ossie from Pamyua! Gin gum gin ossieeee

[@Duderock14]

Way better than me. And that's my language.

[@Kiviuq1000]

Super cool! Woman is Arnaq in Inuktut too! 2 is marruuk, 3 pingasut. There are words I can make out that are similar to my language!

[@3762302]

That's interesting the word for yes sounds the same as in Sepedi spoken in South Africa.

[@anaalexie3546]

I know yupik

[@Duderock14]

@alayaq1 Where you from Alayaq? Queglugmiungunga. Now I stay in Happy Valley on Maui.

[@Fullm3taL17]

nutaan (thumbs up)

[@Solstisol]

Tenerife, Spain, Africa. When, oh when is somebody going to investigate and put up a video relating to the (supposed) Saint Lawrence Island Yuppik whistling? Or was it just a hoax, as many now claim? Best wishes, Solsti.

[@jManNative]

What dialect?? Central??

[@cakataarjack3966]

Hooper Bay/Chevak dialect

[@december241]

Yugtun

[@AliiSweetHeart]

This is Western Alaska dialect, including St. Lawrence island.

[@b01tact10n]

MainLand😁

[@rushnrussian12321]

@KarenGroningen - very very very slightly.

[@MrAntiBuffoonery]

Is it me, but do Scandinavian languages bear a resemblance to Yupik?

[@KarenGroningen]

It sounds as if it is related to Turkish in structure. Is it?

[@jaldo7453]

تقاغنق قوق جق

[@Pegut]

That really do be my algebra A teacher 3 years lmao 🗿

[@elshablack1579]

Lol most white people say it sounds Turkish or some shit like that. This sounds Ute or Paiute. It's definitely a First Nations Language perhaps related to the Navajo and Athabaskan languages. Hearing it has a lot of slashed L's. Ł.

[@AliiSweetHeart]

I’m Yu’pik. Yupiit is not related to the Navajo and Athabascan languages. We do not have slashed Ł’s in our alphabet either, more so, “ll” which is hard to sound out by spelling! 😅

[@UPnDOWNnUPnDOWN]

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