or wryly humorous. The Yup'ik are unique among native peoples of the Americas in that they name children after the most recent person in the community to have died. The kuspuk (qaspeq) is a traditional Yup'ik garment worn by both genders. In Alaska, it is worn in both casual and formal settings. The seal-oil lamp (naniq) was an important piece of furniture. Languages Five Yupik languages (related to Inuktitut) are still very widely spoken; more than 75% of the Yupik/Yup'ik population are fluent in the language. Like the Alaskan Iñupiat, the Alaskan and Siberian Yupik adopted the system of writing developed by Moravian Church missionaries during the 1760s in Greenland. The Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat are the only northern indigenous peoples to have developed their own system of picture writing, but this system died with its creators. Late 19th-century Moravian missionaries to the Yupik in southwestern Alaska used Yupik in church services and translated the scriptures into the people's language. Russian explorers in the 1800s erroneously identified the Yupik people bordering the territory of the somewhat unrelated Aleut as also Aleut, or Alutiiq, in Yupik. By tradition, this term has remained in use, as well as Sugpiaq, both of which refer to the Yupik of Southcentral Alaska and Kodiak. The whole Eskimo–Aleut languages family is shown below: Eskimo–Aleut languages Aleut language Eskimo languages Inuit languages Yupik languages Alaskan: Central Alaskan Yup'ik language (Central Yupik language), ISO 639:esu Alutiiq language (Pacific Gulf Yupik language), ISO 639:ems Siberian: Central Siberian Yupik language (Yuit), ISO 639:ess Naukan Yupik language, ISO 639:ynk Sirenik language, ISO 639:ysr See also List of Alaska Native tribal entities List of Notable Central Alaskan Yup'ik people Notes Further reading Barker, James H. (1993). Always Getting Ready — Upterrlainarluta: Yup'ik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. Branson, John and Tim Troll, eds. (2006). Our Story: Readings from Southwest Alaska — An Anthology. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Natural History Association. Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Alaska. (1968). Alaska Natives & The Land. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. . Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Pacific University Press. Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1990). Eskimo Essays: Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. Fienup-Riordan, Ann.