Chevak Cupꞌik dialect
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Chevak Cupʼik or just Cupʼik is a subdialect of the Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect of Yupʼik spoken in southwestern Alaska in the Chevak by Chevak Cupʼik Eskimos. Speakers of the Chevak subdialect refer to
Chevak, the school (blue), lake, and condemned old school (red)
Hooper Bay youth, 1930
Qargi
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Qargi, Qasgi or Qasgiq, Qaygiq, Kashim, Kariyit, a traditional large semi-subterranean men's community house' of the Yup'ik and Inuit, also Deg Hit'an Athabaskans, was used for public and ceremonial o
Chevak Cupꞌik dialect
…tri-language system in Chevak; English, Cupʼik, and a mixture of the two languages. Before 1950 formal education for students in Chevak took place in the Qaygiq (semi-underground men's community house), and in the homes of the people. The comparison of some words in the two dialects…
Qargi in the village of Stebbins, Alaska 1900
Semi-underground men's community house (Qargi) with bowhead whale bones, Tikiġaġmiut, Point Hope, Alaska, 1885