Sireniks
Sirenik Yupik: сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷий | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Sireniki, Russia | |
| Languages | |
| Siberian Yupik, Russian, formerly Sirenik | |
| Religion | |
| formerly shamanism |
Sirenik or Sireniki (Sirenik Yupik: сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷий Sirenik Yupik pronunciation: [siˈʁənəɣˈməːʁij]) are an Eskaleut-speaking ethnic group of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and former speakers of a divergent Eskimo-Aleut language in Siberia, before its extinction in 1997. The total language death of this language means that now the cultural identity of Sirenik Yupik is maintained through other aspects: slight dialectal difference in the adopted Siberian Yupik language; sense of place, including appreciation of the antiquity of their settlement Sirenik.