Eskimo-Aleut_languages

Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken in United States, Canada and Greenland

Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. Also called Eskaleut (Eskaleutian, Eskaleutic), Eskimoan or Macro-Eskimo,^[1] it consists of the Eskimo languages (including the Inuit languages in the north of Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and the Yupik/Yup'ik languages in western and southwestern Alaska and in Siberia), and the single Aleut language of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands.

The Eskimo-Aleut languages are polysynthetic, and together represent one of the language families of North America.

The Eskimo language family is divided into the Inuit and Yup'ik groups. The proper place of Sirenik within the Eskimo-Aleut language family is debated. Some linguists list it as a branch of Yupik^[2], while others list it as a distinct branch of the language family^[3].

Eskimo-Aleut

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