There are about 3,000 Alutiiqs, but only 500 – 1,000 people still speak this language. The Koniag dialect is spoken on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula and on Kodiak Island. The Chugach dialect is spoken on the Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound. Sirenik an extinct language formerly spoken on the Chukchi Peninsula. Phonology Consonants Central Yup'ik Consonants: c ~, g , gg , k, l , ll , m, ḿ (voiceless m), n (alveolar), ń (voiceless n), ng , ńg (voiceless ŋ), p, q , r , rr , s , ss , t (alveolar), û , v ~, vv , w , y , (gemination of preceding consonant) Vowels Yupik languages have four vowels: 'a', 'i', 'u' and schwa. They have from 13 to 27 consonants. Central Yup'ik Vowels: a, aa, e (ə) (schwa), i, ii, u, uu (In proximity to the uvular consonants 'q', 'r' or 'rr', the vowel is pronounced , and is pronounced .) Prosody Syllable Yup'ik verbs always begin with a root morpheme like "kaig" - to be hungry, and always end with a pronoun. Yupik is a polysynthetic language that can have analytic alternatives; speakers can express similar ideas in a series of words with a number of bound morphemes. Stress The stress pattern of Central Siberian and Central Alaskan is generally iambic where stress occurs on the second syllable of each two-syllable metrical foot. This can be seen in words consisting of light (L) syllables. Here, the parsing of syllables into feet is represented with parentheses: {| cellspacing="6" | (L'L)L || qayáni || || (qa.yá).ni || "his own kayak" |} As can be seen above, the footing of a Yupik word starts from the left edge of the word. (Therefore, a foot parsing of L(L'L)(L'L) is not permitted.) Syllables that cannot be parsed into feet in words with an odd number of syllables are not stressed. (Thus, a parsing of (L'L)('L) is impossible.) Additionally, heavy (H) syllables (consisting of two moras) are obligatorily stressed: {| cellspacing="6" | (L'H)L || qayá:ni || || (qa.yá:).ni || "in another's kayak" |} However, there is a restriction against stress falling on the final syllable of a phrase: (L'L)(L'L) (phrase-internal) (L'L)LL (phrase-final) Stressed syllables undergo phonetic lengthening in Yupik although the details differ from dialect to dialect. Generally, a foot consisting of light CV syllables will have the stressed vowel at a greater length