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The Eskaleut (/ ɛ ˈ s k æ l i uː t / e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan [1] languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
The Eskimo and Aleut peoples were part of a migration from Asia across Beringia, the Bering land bridge between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago. During this period, the Proto-Eskimo-Aleut language was spoken, which broke up around 2000 BC. Differentiation of the two branches is thought to have happened in Alaska because of the linguistic diversity ...
Inuit dialects. North Baffin is the powder blue to the north of Hudson Bay. The North Baffin dialect ( Qikiqtaaluk uannangani or Iglulingmiut ) of Inuktitut is spoken on the northern part of Baffin Island , at Igloolik and the adjacent part of the Melville Peninsula , and in other Inuit communities in the far north of Nunavut , like Resolute ...
[1] Inuktitut uses a split-ergative structure, marking the subject of a non-specific verb and the object of a specific verb in the same way – the absence of a specific morphological marker – and marks the subject of a specific verb and the object of a non-specific verb with particular morphological elements.
Central Alaskan Yupʼik (also rendered Yupik, [4] Central Yupik, [5] [6] or indigenously Yugtun) is one of the languages of the Yupik family, in turn a member of the Eskimo–Aleut language group, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska.
The Yupik languages (/ ˈ juː p ɪ k / [1]) are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka.The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one of the languages may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages.
Inuinnaqtun (Inuinnaqtun: ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ, [inuinːɑqtun]; natively meaning 'like the real human beings/peoples') is an Inuit language. It is spoken in the central Canadian Arctic . It is related very closely to Inuktitut , and some scholars, such as Richard Condon , believe that Inuinnaqtun is more appropriately classified as a ...
Eskimo (/ ˈ ɛ s k ɪ m oʊ /) is an exonym that refers to two closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska.