Editing Sirenik language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Eskimo–Aleut language}}
{{For|the people|Sirenik Eskimos}}
{{Cleanup lang|date=September 2024|iso=ysr}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Sirenik
| altname          = Sirenik Yupik, Sirenikski, Vuteen
| nativename       = {{lang|ysr|Сиӷы́ных}}, {{tlit|ysr|Uqeghllistun}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|ysr|siˈʁənəx|}}
| states           = [[Russia]]
| region           = [[Bering Strait]] region, mixed populations in settlements Sireniki and Imtuk
| ethnicity        = [[Sirenik Eskimos]]
| extinct          = January 1997, with the death of Valentina Wye<ref>{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/ysr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210101426/http://multitree.org/codes/ysr |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 December 2012 |title=Sirenik |access-date=2024-03-07 }}</ref>
| ref              = e18
| speakers2        = 5 (2010)<ref name=":0" />
| familycolor      = Eskimo-Aleut
| fam2             = [[Eskimo languages|Eskimo]]
| fam3             = [[Yupik languages|Yupik]]?
| ancestor         = [[Proto-Eskaleut language|Proto-Eskimo–Aleut]]
| ancestor2        = [[Proto-Eskimoan language|Proto-Eskimo]]
| ancestor3        = [[Proto-Yupik language|Proto-Yupik]]?
| iso3             = ysr
| linglist         = ysr
| glotto           = sire1246
| glottorefname    = Old Sirenik
| script           = Transcribed with [[Cyrillic]] in old monographs<br>New publications may appear with the [[Latin script]]
| notice           = IPA
| map              = Asian Siberian Yupik Eskimo map.svg
| mapcaption       = Map of Yupik settlements in Russia and St. Lawrence Island. The settlement of Sireniki is indicated with the red and yellow dot.
| map2             = Lang Status 01-EX.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Old Sirenik is classified as Extinct by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
}}

'''Sirenik Yupik''',<ref>[http://www.language-archives.org/language/ysr OLAC resources in and about the Sirenik Yupik language]</ref> '''Sireniki Yupik'''<ref>[https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/ISIUOP/Sireniki+Sea+Ice+Dictionary Sireniki Yupik Sea-Ice Dictionary]</ref> (also '''Old Sirenik''' or '''Vuteen'''), '''Sirenik''', or '''Sirenikskiy''' is an extinct [[Eskimo–Aleut languages|Eskimo–Aleut language]]. It was spoken in and around the village of [[Sireniki]] (Сиреники) in [[Chukotka Peninsula]], [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]], [[Russia]]. The [[language shift]] has been a long process, ending in total [[language death]]. In January 1997, the [[terminal speaker|last native speaker]] of the language, a woman named '''Vyjye''' (Valentina Wye) ({{langx|ru|Выйе}}), died.{{sfn|Vakhtin|1998|p=162}}<ref name=Vakh-Sir>{{cite book |language=ru |author=Николай Вахтин [Nikolai Vakhtin] |year=2000 |title=Язык сиреникских эскимосов: Тексты, грамматические и словарные материалы |trans-title=The Language of the Sirenik Eskimos: Texts, Grammatical and Dictionary materials |place=Munchen |publisher=Lincom-Europa |url=http://www.eu.spb.ru/univ/rector/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070910134859/http://www.eu.spb.ru/univ/rector/index.htm |archive-date=2007-09-10 |isbn=9783895869518}}</ref><ref name=ssipr>{{cite web |language=ru |work=Поддержка прав коренных народов Сибири |trans-work=Support for Siberian Indigenous Peoples Rights |title=ЭСКИМОСЫ |trans-title=Eskimos |url=http://www.nsu.ru/ip/eskimos.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830162420/http://www.nsu.ru/ip/eskimos.php |archive-date=2007-08-30}}</ref> Ever since that point, the language has been [[Extinct language|extinct]];{{sfn|Vakhtin|1998|p=162}} nowadays, all [[Sirenik Eskimos]] speak [[Siberian Yupik language|Siberian Yupik]] or [[Russian language|Russian]]. Despite this, censuses as late as [[2010 Russian census|2010]] report up to 5 native speakers of Sirenik.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= |title=tab6.xls |url=http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/per-itog/tab6.xls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206181745/http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/per-itog/tab6.xls |archive-date=2018-02-06 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=gks.ru}}</ref>

Сиӷы́ных {{IPA|ysr|siˈʁənəx|}} is the endonym for the eponymous settlement of Sireniki.{{sfn|Menovshchikov|1964|p=7}}{{sfn|Menovshchikov|1964|p=195}} The endonym for the people itself is {{Lang|ysr|сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷий}} {{IPA|ysr|siˈʁənəɣˈməːʁij|}} "Sirenikites"; the singular form is {{Lang|ysr|сиӷы́ныгмы̄́ӷа}} {{IPA|ysr|siˈʁənəɣˈməːʁa|}}.{{sfn|Menovshchikov|1964|p=195}}{{sfn|Menovshchikov|1964|p=31}}

This article is based on Menovschikov (1964),{{sfn|Menovshchikov|1964}} with cited examples transliterated from Cyrillic transcription to the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]].