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Alaska ballots fraught with issues for Yup’ik speakers | Al Jazeera America

19.8.14

Alaska ballots fraught with issues for Yup’ik speakers | Al Jazeera America: The pamphlets are available in Spanish and Tagalog — but not Yup’ik, a language spoken by Alaska Natives, even though it is among the most commonly spoken languages in the state.

At least 10,000 people speak Yup’ik, according to the Alaska Native Language Center at University of Alaska Fairbanks. It’s the second most-spoken Native language in the U.S. after Navajo. Many speakers live in the community of Bethel or surrounding smaller rural villages in southwest Alaska.

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