Naknek is a census-designated place located in and the borough seat of Bristol Bay Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 470, down from 544 in 2010.
A westward view of downtown Naknek in the spring
Bringing home the house scows (scow-house) at the end of the Alaska Packers Association cannery fishing season in Naknek, August 1906
Dwellings in Naknek in 1917, photo by John Nathan Cobb
Children in Naknek, 1917
Central Alaskan Yupʼik is one of the languages of the Yupik family, in turn a member of the Eskimo–Aleut language group, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska. Both in ethnic population and in number of speakers, the Central Alaskan Yupik people form the largest group among Alaska Natives. As of 2010 Yupʼik was, after Navajo, the second most spoken aboriginal language in the United States. Yupʼik should not be confused with the related language Central Siberian Yupik spoken in Chukotka and St. Lawrence Island, nor Naukan Yupik likewise spoken in Chukotka.
The Pledge of Allegiance in Yupʼik. This uses a variant orthography with <gh> instead of <r> to indicate the voiced uvular fricative.