Eskimo-Aleut languages Eskimo-Aleut languages Aleut is a language of the Eskimo-Aleut language phylum. It is the tongue of the Aleut people living in the Aleutian, Pribilof, and Commander Islands. In 1995 there were 305 speakers of Aleut. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aleut language"
Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. It consists of the Eskimo languages, known as Inuit in the north of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, as Yup'ik in the west of Alaska, and as Yuit in Siberia, on the one side, and the single Aleut language on the other. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eskimo-Aleut languages"
Ĝ or ĝ (G circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar affricate (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to or in the IPA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ĝ"
Inuinnaqtun is an indigenous language of Canada. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and many people believe that Inuinnaqtun is only a dialect of Inuktitut. The government of the Northwest Territories does not recognize Inuinnaqtun as a separate language from Inuktitut, but Nunavut lists it as one of its official languages alongside Inuktitut. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inuinnaqtun"
* Qawiaraq is spoken on the southern side of the Seward Peninsula and the Norton Sound area. It was also in the past spoken in Chukotka, particularly Big Diomede island, but appears to have vanished in Russian areas through assimilation into Yupik, Chukchi and Russian speaking communities. It is radically different in phonology from other Inuit language variants. Some people consider the Bering Strait dialect to be separate from Qawariaq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inuit language"
Inuktitut ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, literally "like the Inuit") is the name of the varieties of Inuit language spoken in Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the treeline, including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and to some extent in northeastern Manitoba as well as the territories of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and traditionally on the Arctic Ocean coast of Yukon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inuktitut"
Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, Inupiak or Inupiatun is a group of dialects of the Inuit language spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska. There are roughly 10,000 speakers of these dialects; the people are known as Inupiat. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inupiaq language"
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Inuvialuktun is a word routinely used to describe the varieties of the language of the Inuit spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by those Canadian Inuit who call themselves Inuvialuit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inuvialuktun"
The Kalaallisut language (also called Greenlandic, Greenlandic Eskimo, or Greenlandic Inuktitut) is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland and closely related to Canadian languages such as Inuktitut. The language, like its relatives, is highly polysynthetic and ergative. There are almost no compound words, but mostly derivations. Greenland has three main dialects: North, West and East Greenlandic; West Greenlandic, the largest dialect, is called Kalaallisut. The northern dialect, Inuktun, spoken around the city of Qaanaaq (Thule) is more closely related to Canadian Inuktitut. Kalaallisut is spoken by about 50,000 people, which is more than than all the other Eskimo-Aleut languages combined. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kalaallisut language"
Kangiryuarmiutun (somtimes Kangirjuarmiutun) is the name of the dialect of Inuit language spoken in Holman, Northwest Territories, Canada. The dialect is part of the Inuvialuktun language. The people of Holman prefer to think of it as Inuinnaqtun and it is essentially the same. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kangiryuarmiutun"
Naukan is a dialect of the Eskimo language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Naukan language"
Nunatsiavummiutut, also known as Labradorimiutut, and called Inuttut by its speakers, ia a variant of the Inuit language. It was once spoken across northern Labrador by Inuit people, whose traditional lands have now been consolidated as Nunatsiavut. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nunatsiavummiutut"
Qawiaraq is the name usually given to the variants of Inuit language spoken in western Alaska, particularly to those spoken on the Seward Peninsula. ...more on Wikipedia about "Qawiaraq language"
Siberian Yupik (Yuit, self-naming: Yupikhyt, Yuhyt) are an indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and the St. Lawrence Island of Alaska. They speak Central Siberian Yupik, a Yupik language related to the other Yupik in Russia and Alaska. ...more on Wikipedia about "Siberian Yupik"
Siglitun is the dialect of Inuit language spoken by the Siglit Inuit. It is mainly used in the communities of Paulatuk, Sachs Harbour and Tuktoyaktuk. Siglitun was once the principal dialect of the Mackenzie river delta, nearby parts of the coast and Arctic ocean islands, but the number of speakers fell dramatically following outbreaks of new diseases in the 19th century and for many years Siglitun was believed to be completely extinct. It was only in the 1980s that outsiders realised that it was still spoken. ...more on Wikipedia about "Siglitun"
Sirenik is a moribund Yupik language, with just one remaining elderly fluent speaker in Sireniki village, Chukotka, northeastern Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sirenik language"
Uummarmiutun is the variant of Inuit language spoken by the Uummarmiut Inuit, who live mainly in the communities of Inuvik and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories of Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uummarmiutun"
Yugtun is a dialect of Yupik spoken in Central Alaska. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yugtun"
The Yupik people speak five distinct languages, depending on their location. The languages differ enough from one another that speakers of different ones cannot understand each other, although they may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yupik language"
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