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Aleut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aleut basketry is some of the finest in the world, the continuum of a craft begun in prehistoric times and carried through to the present. The Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 was an attempt by Congress to compensate the survivors. Aleuts constructed barabaras, partially underground houses that functioned well, as Lillie McGarvey, a 20th-century Aleut leader, wrote “keeping occupants dry from the frequent rains, warm at all times, and snugly sheltered from the high winds peculiar to the area”. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleut   (506 words)

Alaska Native Languages -- Aleut Aleut is one branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. The Russians used the name Aleut also to refer to the Pacific Eskimos, or Koniags, who inhabited Kodiak Island to the east (see the section on the Alutiiq language). Aleut is a single language divided at Atka Island into the Eastern and the Western dialects. www.uaf.edu /anlc/langs/al.html   (289 words)

East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Eskimo/Aleut Aleuts are thought to be distant cousins of the Eskimo, and most linguists recognize an Eskimo-Aleut language family, whose proto-form is thought to have been spoken in northeastern Siberia over 10,000 years ago. The Bering and Copper Island Aleuts are the descendants of a population moved there en masse by the Russians in the 19th century from more easterly islands in the Aleutian chain. Eskimo groups in Siberia call themselves Yupigyt, a term which means "authentic people" (from yuk, person) It has become more customary for ethnographers to refer to them as Siberian Yupik (instead of "Siberian Eskimo"). pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/aleut.htm   (1965 words)

White Dove's Native American Indian Site Eskimo (Yupik.Inupiat/inuit) The Eskimo and Aleut peoples occupy the northern North American coastline and nearby islands from Prince William Sound in south central Alaska westward and northward in Alaska, across the Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Island and eastern Siberia, and around the continental Arctic coast eastward across Canada to Quebec, Labrador, and on to Greenland. Another Eskimo belief was that the spirits of whales, after spending time in the human community, returned to their home under the sea and reported on the human behaviors they had observed to the other whales, their reports, in turn, had an effect on the spring whale hunt. Eskimos believed that animals would give themselves voluntarily to the hunter who acted properly toward them, and the purpose of many ritual practices was in fact to show respect for and give thanks to the spirits of animals taken for food. users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/eskimo-yupik-inupiat-inuit.html   (2208 words)

Eskimo-Aleut languages Igiugig.com A Eskimo and Aleut village on the western shore of Lake Iliamna. Eskimo Bob Bob is an Eskimo who lives with his friend Alfozno in the Arctic. Eskimo Words for "Snow" Steven J. Derose debunks the modern myth that Yup'ik has an endless vocabulary to describe snow. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Eskimo-Aleut_languages.html   (323 words)

Eskimo-Aleut languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Eskimo is a dispreferred name, but is retained to speak of the Yuit-Yup'ik-Inuit as a whole. However, recent research suggests that Yup'ik by itself is not a valid node, or, equivalently, that the Inuit dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eskimo-Aleut_languages   (287 words)

Eskimo-Aleut Religion According to the federal government 1980 census on tribal population there were 661 Aleut and Eskimo in the United States. Later eskimo art is representational consisting of drawings of beavers or bears. The eskimos also had a distinctive form of engraving style. philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/inuit.html   (640 words)

Saving Aleut: Linguist begins effort to preserve native Alaskan language Aleut, or Unangam Tunuu, is part of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. Aleut is one of 3,000 to 3,500 languages in danger of vanishing before the end of the 21st century. Aleut is both a written and oral language. www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-06/uow-sal062403.php   (856 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eskimo-Aleut Languages Aleut, native of the Aleutian Islands, belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut language family (also known as Inuit-Aleut), and usually classified as Native... The native people, known as Aleuts, belong to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and are generally classified ethnologically as Native North Americans.... While scholars generally agree that cultural evolution occurred in the Americas, there is no real evidence that human physical evolution (that is,... uk.encarta.msn.com /Eskimo-Aleut_Languages.html   (132 words)

Aleut --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! Aleuts speak two main dialects and are physically and culturally closely related to the Eskimo. Aleuts speak two mutually intelligible dialects and are closely related to the Eskimo in language and culture. Eskimo consists of two divisions: Yupik, spoken in Siberia and southwestern Alaska, and Inuit, spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9354935?tocId=9354935   (642 words)

Alaskool - Many Tongues, Ancient Tales The sharp linguistic border between Aleut and Eskimo is no doubt due not to ancient separation but rather to the complete elimination of prehistoric intermediate languages by Eskimo and Aleut, which now meet on the Alaska Peninsula. Though recognized on a sound basis as genetically related to Eskimo in 1818 by Rasmus Rask, the divergence between Aleut and Eskimo is far greater than any divergence within Eskimo, about what might be expected after 4,000 years or more, more than twice the time to which the divergence within Eskimo might be attributed. It is proposed that the Eskimo languages on the Siberian side represent relatively minor westward movement back to and into the Chukchi Peninsula from Alaska, and that Sirenikski represents the oldest wave of that movement, Siberian Yupik the second, and Naukanski the latest. www.alaskool.org /Language/manytongues/ManyTongues.html   (3421 words)

Eskimo Dictionary, Eskimo Fonts, Eskimo Grammar, Eskimo Movies/VideosDocumentary, Eskimo OCR, Eskimo Reference, Eskimo Software - Mac, Eskimo Software - Windows, Eskimo System, The only language known to be related to Eskimo is the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands. The Eskimos call themselves inuit, or "people." The word Eskimo comes from the language of the Cree Indians—their immediate neigh-bors to the south in the area of Hudson Bay—and means "eaters of raw flesh." Igloo and kayak are two Eskimo words that have entered the English language. Eskimo is spoken over a vast area extending from Greenland across Canada and Alaska, and into Siberia. www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Eskimo.htm   (444 words)

Culture.7838 The language of the Copper Eskimo belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut family of the American Arctic-Paleosiberian Phylum. The Copper Eskimo were adaptable to both land and sea environments; exploitation of one or the other depended on the season of the year. Chown and Lewis estimated in 1958 that there were about 1,000 Copper Eskimo (1959: 13A). lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7838   (797 words)

Language Note that the more familiar term 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory by some Native Americans; 'Inuit' is preferred. This group of languages is spoken in the polar regions of North America, and western Siberia. www.wordgumbo.com /ea   (33 words)

Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs-NA Market Profile The nation's Native American, Eskimo and Aleut population is projected to grow steadily, to 3.1 million in 2020 and 4.4 million in 2050. Between 1997 and 2010, the number of Native American, Eskimo and Aleut households in the United States is projected to climb from 713,397 to 906,036. On April 1, 2000, the Native American, Eskimo and Aleut population in the United States stood at 2.4 million, or 0.9 percent of the total population. www.indianaffairs.state.az.us /busdev/conspend.html   (641 words)

Aleut Materiale di riferimento, Aleut is spoken by about 1,000 people in the Aleutian Islands and by a few hundred more on the Commander Islands, which belong to Russia. The first alphabet for the Aleut language was developed by a Russian missionary about 1825 and was based on the Cyrillic alphabet. It is related to Eskimo but only distantly, the two languages being in no way mutually intelligible. www.worldlanguage.com /Italian/Languages/Aleut.htm   (147 words)

Aleut A general introduction has information on Aleut phonology and orthography, dialect differences and developments, and even Eskimo-Aleut phonological correspondences (Eskimo cognates, where known, are given in the word entries). There is a section on the sounds of Aleut with practice on the sounds that are new to English speakers. The illustrations are by the late Aleut artist Alfred Stepetin, and nearly 60 photographs are also included, many recently acquired from archives in the USSR. wings.buffalo.edu /linguistics/ssila/learning/aleut.htm   (426 words)

Ethnologue 14 report for language code:ALW Aleut is taught in school until the fourth grade. Western Aleut on Atka Island (Aleutian Chain) and Commander Islands (Russia); Eastern Aleut on eastern Aleutian Islands, Pribilofs, and Alaskan Peninsula. Copper Island Aleut is a mixed Aleut-Russian language, or pidgin, spoken on Mednyj Island. www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ALW   (222 words)

American Indian Heritage Month: November 1-30 http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/1999/cb99-101.html - The nation's American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut resident population is young, with an estimated median age on July 1, 1999, of 27.6 years nearly eight years younger than the median for the population as a whole. The typical American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut family was made up of 3.59 people, larger than the average 3.12 people for families of all races. Shannon, S.D., and Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska, where 94 percent of residents were American Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts, led the nation, followed by Menominee,Wis. (88 percent); Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska (86 percent); Bethel Census Area, Alaska (84 percent); Todd, S.D. (83 percent); and Buffalo, S.D. (79 percent). www.census.gov /Press-Release/www/1999/cb99ff14.html   (1252 words)

The Eskimo-Aleut language of Canada Which Eskimo dialect you speak also seems to have an impact on the number of words used for snow as does the fact that Eskimo is polysynthetic. In her article, the author mentions that there are two Eskimo languages (Yupik and Inuktitut) which are spoken from Greenland to Siberia. Sadock, Jerrold M. The nomalistic theory of Eskimo: A case study in scientific self-deception. www.unh.edu /linguistics/courses/790CS/annotations/HW2/Aleut.Malena.HW2.htm   (575 words)

AllRefer.com - Eskimo-Aleut (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language. Aleut is the language of a few thousand people, and Eskimo is native to over 100,000 people. Eskimo-Aleut, family of Native American languages consisting of Aleut (spoken on the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Peninsula) and Eskimo or Inuktitut (spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia). reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/EskimoAl.html   (359 words)

ALEUT HERITAGE Aleuts are more closely related to Eskimo peoples than to other Native groups, but the Aleut language broke off from the Eskimo language tree far back in the past. Aleuts have lived on the Aleutian Islands for thousands of years. The Russians gave the name Aleuts to all the Native peoples of the Aleutians, Kodiak and up along the Alaska Peninsula, resulting in confusion even today. www.alaskan.com /docs/aleutian_heritage.html   (177 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Inuit-Aleut updated 5-23-2001 Inuit (Inuit-Aleut), also called Eskimo and Eskimoan, comprises one branch of the Inuit-Aleut family of languages. The Aleut languages are spoken in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, and also in the nearby Commander Islands, which belong to Russia. Aleut is divided into the Western Aleut and Eastern Aleut sub-branches. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/inualeuh.htm   (1122 words)

ANLC Publications -- Aleut (Unangan) Includes historical survey and data, orthography, phonology, Eskimo-Aleut correspondences, place name maps, much additional data, tables and references. Aleut Dictionary, Unangam Tunudgusii: An unabridged lexicon of the Aleutian, Pribilof, and Commander Islands Aleut language, compiled by Knut Bergsland. Aleut Grammar, Unangam Tunuganaan Achixaasix by Knut Bergsland, Alaska Native Language Center Research Paper Number 10 (see also Research Papers). www.uaf.edu /anlc/pubs/al.html   (133 words)

individual book page Although this is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary of the Eskimo languages, it is the cumulative product of nearly two centuries of Eskimo (and Eskimo-Aleut) linguistics, beginning with Rasmus Rask. Proto-Eskimo-Aleut reconstructions are not attempted (not because this would be especially difficult — the comparative phonology of Eskimo-Aleut is fairly well understood, and the relationship is virtually certain — but because it falls outside the primary mission of the dictionary). Ten varieties of Eskimo are compared, including five Inuit dialect groups (constituting a dialect chain with minimal mutual intelligibility between groups at the extremes), four Yupik languages, and Sireniski, the nearly extinct Siberian Eskimo language. wings.buffalo.edu /linguistics/ssila/books/indbook/b311.htm   (293 words)

The American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut Population Census Bureau estimates and projections suggest that on July 1, 1994, the American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut population numbered 2.2 million, and that it will reach 4.3 million and just over 1 percent of the population by 2050. In the last two decades, the American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut population grew rapidly. The 1990 census counted 1,878,285 American Indians, 57,152 Eskimos, and 23,797 Aleuts. www.census.gov /population/www/pop-profile/amerind.html   (1206 words)

ipedia.com: Eskimo-Aleut languages Article It consists of Eskimo languages (the languages of the Eskimos) and the Aleut language. It consists of Eskimo languages and the Aleut language. www.ipedia.com /eskimo_aleut_languages.html   (110 words)

Eskimo-Aleut languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to Joseph Greenberg's highly controversial classification of the languages of Native North America, Eskimo-Aleut is one of the three main groups of Native languages spoken in the Americas, and represents a distinct wave of migration from Asia to the Americas. 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. Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inupik   (287 words)

GeoNative - Alaskan and Siberian Eskimos - Inupiaq - Yupik - Aleut The Aleuts are the native inhabitants of the long archipelago streching from Alaska to Russia. The term Eskimo, refused by other Inuit groups, is currently used with no despective sense in Alaska. Nowadays, there are some Aleuts in the Commander islands of Russia, but most live in the US. www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/inupiaq.html   (858 words)

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