Eskimo-Aleut languages: Endangered Eskimo-Aleut languages, Inuit language, Yupik languages, Inuit languages, Greenlandic language, Inuit grammar, Sirenik Eskimo language, Inuktitut, Inuit phonology, Central Alaskan Yupik language, Eskimo words for snow

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Chapters: Endangered Eskimo-Aleut languages, Inuit language, Yupik languages, Inuit languages, Greenlandic language, Inuit grammar, Sirenik Eskimo language, Inuktitut, Inuit phonology, Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Eskimo words for snow, Central Siberian Yupik language, Nunivak Cup'ig language, Inuvialuk language, Chevak Cup¿ik language, Alutiiq language, Inuinnaq dialect, Inuktitut syllabics, Nunatsiavummiut dialect, Utkuhiksalik dialect, Natsilik dialect, Inuktun language, KYUK, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Siglit dialect, Kangiryuarmiut dialect, G, Inuktitut writing, Proto-Eskimo-Aleut language, Naukan Yupik language, Yugtun script, Inuit Sign Language, Yugtun dialect, Postbase, Proto-Eskimo language. Excerpt: EskimöAleut is a language family native to Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula on the eastern tip of Siberia. It is also known as Eskaleut, Eskaleutian, Eskaleutic, Eskimish, Eskimoan, and Macro-Eskimo or Inuit¿Unangan. The EskimöAleut language family is divided into two branches, the Eskimo languages and the Aleut language. The Aleut language family consists of a single language, Aleut, spoken in the Aleutian Islands and the Pribilof Islands. Aleut is divided into several dialects. The Eskimo languages are divided into two branches, the Yupik languages, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska and in easternmost Siberia, and the Inuit language, spoken in northern Alaska, in Canada, and in Greenland. The Inuit language, which covers a huge range of territory, is divided into several dialects. The proper place of one language, Sirenik, within the Eskimo family has not been settled. Some linguists list it as a branch of Yupik, others as a separate branch of the Eskimo family, alongside Yupik and Inuit. It is thought that the common ancestral language of the Eskimo languages and of Aleut divided into the Eskimo and Aleut branches around 2000 BCE. The Eskimo language family divided into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1000 CE. The EskimöAleut languages are among the native languages of the Americas. However, this is a geographical category, not a linguistic one. The EskimöAleut languages are not demonstrably related to the other language families of North America. EskimöAleut languages AleutWestern¿Central dialects: Atkan, Attuan, Unangan, Bering (60¿80 speakers)Eastern dialects: Unalaskan, Pribilof (400 speakers)Eskimo languages (or Yupik¿Inuit languages)Yupik languages (or Yup'ik languages)Central Alaskan Yup'ik (10,000 speakers)General Central Alaskan Yup¿ik language (or Yugtun)Chevak Cup¿ik language (or Cugtun)Nunivak Cup'ig language (or Cugtun)Alutiiq or Pacific Gulf Yup'ik (400 speakers)Central Siberian