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Yugtun is a dialect of Central Alaskan Yup'ik spoken in Central Alaska. Central Alaskan Yup'ik (also called Yupik, Yup'ik, or Central Yup'ik) is a Yupik language of the Eskimo-Aleut language group Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent

The term Yugtun is also sometimes used to refer to the syllable script invented in the early 1900s by Uyaquk for writing that language. Uyaquk (sometimes spelled Uyakoq) was a Yupik Moravian missionary and linguistic Genius who went from being an illiterate adult


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