As an Irishman, my heart breaks for these people, especially the elders who long to keep their language alive. I first heard of this language through a Yup'ik friend of mine, unfortunately he can't speak it, but wishes he could. Where I'm from in Ireland, an Cabhán, the last native speaker of my counties dialect of Irish died in 1938. Through audio recordings of the last native speaker and documented information in PDFs I've been able to learn the dialect, even though it is extinct. Stories, old sayings and proverbs were recorded, vocabulary used in day to day life, it's so beautiful. I hope the Yup'ik people and other Native Americans can revitalise their languages and make them the working languages again. Much love from Ireland ❤

This is sad about these languages facing extinction. Think of all the history, all the stories that have been passed down through the generations in their native language. My grandmother was Abenaki Native. Unfortunately our language is close to extinction with only a few people left who speak fluently, mostly older generation. Thankfully there are people out there who work to preserve the language such as those in this video. It really is up to our generation to keep the language thriving.

Beautiful People , our People face our disappearing language also less than 20 of us left alive.

Even if we never learn the secret beauty of your language, hold on to it for yourself and ancestors. That you deserve, and owe yourselves! All the best!

A joy when I was in Alaska in the mid 90s was hearing Yup'ik spoken on the radio midday - so much culture is interwoven with language - loved the comment "start dancing and you will sing in Yup'ik" 💗

I’m a Yupik woman!

It’s should be extremely important for the younger generation to safeguard, protect and learn the language before extinction. Since this is such an isolated community I would think the school system would allow classes to early students for preservation

I have Yup’ik friends. Thanks for this.

Wonderful video, reminds me of home, and makes me homesick! Thanks for producing it, and sharing it. It's true, there are not that many young people who speak Yup'ik these days. I especially love the ending where the colorful boots are walking through mud puddles!

A really lovely documentary. it was my first time hearing the yupik language spoken, it has such a beautiful sound. Hopefully the language will survive the next few generations

ive said this at an ASB meeting, people were saying the schools needed to enforce the yupik language. i told them it all starts at home. when the children depend on you for everything.

My daughter is teaching in a Yup'ik village and I would like to learn a bit of Yup'ik over the next year before my first visit. I would like to see someone do basic Yup'ik instruction on KZfaq or somewhere else to help whites learn the language.

2:03 "These TVs are making the younger generation's language fade away", he says while wearing a 'Deadliest Catch' shirt. He's right of course but it's simply inevitable. With increasing globalization this will only be one of many languages to go extinct. And I understand that it's sad because with each language some of the culture dies too. But that's the way it goes and has always been. So many historic languages are long forgotten. Some are so far gone we're not even sure anymore if they ever existed. Looking at the positive, young folks growing up in remote places have more chances today than ever before. In the past you couldn't just go to university in California. People couldn't simply fly to a tropical place. Now they can. Or they can stay and keep living the old way. But the rest of the world will come whether one likes it or not. Whether one tries to stop it or not. Time and progress can not be stopped. What the kids see on the internet, they're not going to unlearn.

Im native Alaskan and I’m Iñupiaq yupik sound a little like Iñupiaq but in our language we speak faster but you guys are a older version of us Iñupiaq

I wish that the video editor removed the music. I wanted to hear the people speak. Not listen to a song !

It's upto the people to keep the culture alive it only takes one strong positive person to start a movement

What a shame that smaller cultures get absorbed into bigger ones because there simply are more people there and slowly annihilated. Just imagine how many languages and dialects already disappeared (and continue to do so) because they didn't have the means to share their culture (i.e. internet). I am very happy to see that videos like this one exist and that this culture will not be forgotten.

YUPIK Eskimo is my native heritage, from my father!

In Yupik, Wolf is Kegluneq.

Hello, my name is Chris I'm Yup'ik but live in Colorado I really want to learn my language, where do I start to learn

I school there and live there and that kid with blonde his name is attached

I wanna learn Yup'ik so bad! Does anyone know a teacher who would teach it online?

keep speaking in Yup'ik, no matter what!!!

i can't believe no one said they're from good mythical morning

I am greenlandic inuk, but I cannot understand their language.

No noy attached his name is atsa

I believe they came from Mongolia. First thought came to my mind was they look like my people.

I am a Yupik women.

Did you ever look at how much of the language was based on Russian?

Their langage looks like inuktitut

They don't look "Asian". They look like their own. The Yup'ik look Yup'ik. I'm sick of hearing they look "Asian". It's the same with the Inuit.

My native language is yupik but sadly never got to learn it

Only way to get our language back is to get it the way it was taken away from us. Remove them from the english speaking homes into a remote yupik speaking environment with teachers qualified to teach it.

@Kip Kinkel There is no race called "Asian." It is too much simplification forged by Westerners in colonial and imperial periods. Japanese people (especially right-wingers) are offended if you say Japanese are "asians", since they think Japanese are Japanese, special, unique, and different from the other people.

This lady has no accent at all

Sounds like Arabic