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[3] [6] [7] The Eskimoan language family split into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1,000 years ago. [6] More recent classifications find a third branch, Old Sirenik. [8] The Eskaleut languages are among the native languages of the Americas. This is a geographical category, not a genealogical one.
The Inuit languages constitute a branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family. They are closely related to the Yupik languages and more remotely to Aleut . These other languages are all spoken in western Alaska , United States, and eastern Chukotka , Russia.
The Sirenikski language is sometimes regarded as a third branch of the Eskimo language family, but other sources regard it as a group belonging to the Yupik branch. [77] Distribution of language variants across the Arctic. An overview of the Eskimo–Aleut languages family is given below:
As Inuktitut was the language of the Eastern Canadian Inuit [80] and Kalaallisut is the language of the Western Greenlandic Inuit, [81] they are related more closely than most other dialects. [89] Inuit in Alaska and Northern Canada also typically speak English. [90] In Greenland, Inuit also speak Danish and learn English in school. Inuit in ...
The missionaries of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches were the first ones to deliver formal education to Inuit in schools. The teachers used the Inuktitut language for instruction and developed writing systems. [9] In 1928 the first residential school for Inuit opened, and English became the language of instruction. As the government's ...
Considering the large number of non-Inuit living in Inuvialuit areas and the lack of a single common dialect among the already reduced number of speakers, the future of the Inuit language in the NWT appears bleak. From east to west, the dialects are: Iglulingmiut or North Baffin, spoken on western Baffin Island (contrast South Baffin dialect.)
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.
Inuktun (English: Polar Inuit, Greenlandic: avanersuarmiutut, Danish: nordgrønlandsk, polarinuitisk, thulesproget) is the language of approximately 1,000 indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland. [3]