sentences:  "Yup'ik" (plural "Yupiit") comes from the Yup'ik word "yuk" meaning "person" plus the postbase "-pik" or "-piaq" meaning "real" or "genuine"; thus, "Yup'ik" literally means "real people".The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the Yup'ik people or their language as "Yuk" or "Yuit.