Inuit

Branch of the Inuit–Yupik (Eskimo) language subfamily of the Eskaleut languages

Entitylanguage subfamily dialect continuumQ27796

Also known as Inuit languages

Instance of: language subfamily
, dialect continuum
Subclass of: Inuit–Yupik

Overview

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The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous North American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent subarctic regions as far south as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskaleut (Eskimoan) language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska and the Russian Far East. Most Inuit live in one of three countries: Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark; Canada, specifically in Nunavut, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories, the Nunavik region of Quebec, and the Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut regions of Labrador; and the United States, specifically in northern and western Alaska.

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Permanent duplicated item: Q25681466
Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb
agglutinative language
polysynthetic language
ergative–absolutive language
Speakers: 90,000 sourcing circumstances: circa
Category for films in this language: Category:Inuit-language films

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14 identifiers linking Inuit across the web's reference databases

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