 The Yupik languages, like other Eskimo–Aleut languages, represent a particular type of agglutinative language called an "affixally polysynthetic language".Yupik languages "synthesize" a single root at the beginning of every word with various grammatical suffixes to create long words with sentence-like meanings.Within the vocabulary of Yupik there are lexical roots and suffixes that can be combined to create meanings that in most languages are expressed by multiple free morphemes.