Sirenik Yupik,
Sireniki Yupik (also
Old Sirenik or
Vuteen),
Sirenik, or
Sirenikskiy is an extinct
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
last native speaker of the language, a woman named
Vyie (Valentina Wye) , died. Ever since that point, the language has been
extinct; nowadays, all
Sirenik Eskimos speak
Siberian Yupik or
Russian.