Central Alaskan Yup'ik or just
Yup'ik (also called
Yupik,
Central Yup'ik, or indigenously
Yugtun) 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,
Central Alaskan Yup'ik is the largest of the languages spoken by
Alaska Natives. As of 2010 it was also the second largest aboriginal language in the United States in terms of numbers of speakers. Yup'ik should not be confused with the related language
Yupik spoken in Siberia.