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AllRefer.com - Eskimo-Aleut (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia 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). 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. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/EskimoAl.html   (359 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)

Learn more about Language families and languages in the online encyclopedia. Most languages are known to belong to language families (called simply "families" for the rest of this article). Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram). www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/la/language_families_and_languages.html   (483 words)

Vowels (from Eskimo-Aleut languages) --  Encyclopædia Britannica family of languages spoken in Greenland, Canada, Alaska (United States), and eastern Siberia (Russia), by the Eskimo and Aleut peoples. 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. www.britannica.com /eb/article-75298?tocId=75298   (706 words)

Open Directory - Science:Social Sciences:Linguistics:Languages:Natural The Kordofanian languages are spoken primarily in Sudan. This is the subcategory for languages native to Australia and the Torres Straits Islands. This became the theory of Indo-European languages, and today the hypothetical language that would be the common source for all Indo-European languages is called Proto-Indo-European. dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/desc.html   (1874 words)

Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:Raven - Metaweb Aleut seamstresses created finely stitched waterproof parkas from seal gut, and some women still master the skill of weaving fine baskets from rye and beach grass. It has been stated that before the advent of the Russians there were 25,000 Aleuts on the archipelago, but that the barbarities of the traders and foreign diseases eventually reduced the population to one-tenth of this number. Hundreds more Aleuts from the western chain and the Pribilofs were evacuated by the United States government during World War II and placed in internment camps in southeast Alaska, where many died. www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Raven   (1524 words)

Language/eskimo words for snow derby The Eskimo languages use derived words extensively, and there are fewer than 2,000 base stems in the West Greenlandic dialect[1] With all that said, I'll just present some word lists and let everyone come up with their own opinion... The Eskimo languages are at the other extreme, and are the prototypical example of a polysynthetic language[2], wherein one word contains several elements of the situation. The dialects spoken by coastal native peoples from the east of Siberia to Greenland are classed as Eskimo, but many scholars divide them into two languages, Yupik and Inuit, with some scholars further sub-dividing these dialects. tafkac.org /language/eskimo_words_for_snow_derby.html   (792 words)

ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Inuit Eskimo-Aleut Languages, family of at least six languages spoken across the Arctic from Siberia eastwards across Alaska and Canada to Greenland. Eskimo Dog, any of several mixed breeds of large working and hunting dogs of northern North America, particularly Labrador and Greenland, related to... Inuit, also referred to as Eskimo, several Arctic peoples inhabiting Nunavut and small enclaves in the coastal areas of Greenland, Alaska, and... au.encarta.msn.com /Inuit.html   (83 words)

2005-2006 UAF Catalog Eskimo languages are spoken by far northern people from the northeastern tip of Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland. The Eskimo languages include the four Yup'ik languages of Alaska and Siberia as well as Inuit, the Alaskan sector of which is called Inupiaq. Eskimo languages are the linguistic heritage of more than half of Alaska's Native population. www.uaf.edu /catalog/current/programs/eskimo.html   (352 words)

The Eskimo-Aleut language of Canada I decided to investigate this particular language family because even though I know some about the Eskimo language of Inuktitut, I do not know anything about the Aleut and Yupik languages derived from this language family. In her article, the author mentions that there are two Eskimo languages (Yupik and Inuktitut) which are spoken from Greenland to Siberia. 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. www.unh.edu /linguistics/courses/790CS/annotations/HW2/Aleut.Malena.HW2.htm   (575 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. Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. www.ipedia.com /eskimo_aleut_languages.html   (110 words)

An exercise in etymology Aleut, spoken in the Aleutian islands, is more distantly related to the other Eskimo languages. Historical relationships among languages are generally determined on the basis of reconstructed word forms as common ancestors to cognates in the daughter languages. The different spellings in the Germanic languages seen in the chart below for the word all approximate the same pronunciation: in phonological parlance, the first vowel is a high front short vowel, and the second vowel is an unstressed high back rounded one. www.hum.uit.no /a/svenonius/lingua/history/iglu.html   (1021 words)

Eskimos Eskimos are racially distinct from American Indians, and are not, as previously believed, merely “Indians transformed.” In fact, the Eskimos are most closely related to the Mongolian peoples of eastern Asia. Eskimos along the Pacific coast probably obtained much of their food by fishing for salmon, while the Central Eskimos of Canada subsisted mainly on caribou. Eskimo groups lived in various types of shelters, including semi-subterranean sod houses and tents made of caribou skins. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0002155.html   (395 words)

Public Anthropology It appears, from the article, that Eskimo skeletons are closely related to those of Northern Coast Indians, and that the Aleut skeletons are closer to Native Americans tribes like the Apache. Eskimo and Aleut populations, on the other hand, have become more distantly linked biologically. after 1000 A.D. may account for the divergent development of Eskimo and Aleut peoples. www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Aa1987.htm   (10629 words)

Native American Languages While most languages have accusative case systems like that of English (opposing grammatical categories of subject and object), active systems in which the same morpheme is used to indicate the object of a transitive verb and the subject of a stative verb are not uncommon. When such correspondences are discovered, the languages being compared are judged to have a historical connection, either genetic--because of descent from a common ancestor--or through language contact and the consequent "borrowing" of words. Alaskan languages and some as far south as California have Russian loans, for instance, dating from the time of extensive trade with Russia, and borrowings from Spanish are common throughout California, the Southwest, and, of course, Latin America. www.indians.org /welker/americas.htm   (1965 words)

Smithsonian Institution, Anthropology Outreach Office: American Indian Languages References In 1492 there were at least 350 different languages spoken by the Native Americans north of Mexico, including Eskimos and Aleuts, and perhaps some 1,500 languages spoken in Mexico and Central and South America. In addition, Greenlandic Eskimo is one of the two official languages of Greenland (together with Danish) and is used in all levels of local administration including the Greenland Parliament. However, Guarani is one of the national languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), and Nahuatl (Aztec) and various Mayan languages are the majority languages of extensive regions of Mexico and Guatemala as is Quechua in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. www.nmnh.si.edu /anthro/outreach/indian_l.htm   (808 words)

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

Eskimo on Encyclopedia.com They speak dialects of the same language, Eskimo, which is a major branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. In spite of regional differences, Eskimo groups are surprisingly uniform in language, physical type, and culture, and, as a group, are distinct in these traits from all neighbors. Eskimo Joe's Burger Joint Is the Big Man on Oklahoma State University's Campus. www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Eskimo.asp   (456 words)

Inuktitut language - the free encyclopedia It is related to the Aleut language, and together they form the Eskimo-Aleut family;while this has no proven wider affinities, some postulation hastaken place as to the relation of Inuktitut to the Indo-European languages and to theNostraticsuperphylum. The language is a member of theEskimo-Aleutgroup of languages. This is notaccurate, and results from a misunderstanding of the nature ofpolysynthetic languages. www.aaez.biz /?t=Inuktitut_language   (672 words)

Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Paleoasian languages Eskimo-Aleut languages - a family of languages spoken in the Chukotka Peninsula and the Bering Island (Russia), in Alaska and the Aleut Islands (USA), in the northern regions of Canada and in Greenland. The Chukchi, Eskimo, Koryak and Nivkh written languages were created in the 1930's (first on the Latin, later Russian script). Luorawetlan (Chukotka-Kamchatka) languages - a family of languages spoken by the native population of the Chukotka and Kamchatka peninsulas. www.peoples.org.ru /eng_paleoaz.html   (140 words)

Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe The exclusion of such languages from this report is not intended to imply any bias whatsoever against such “immigrant” languages or their speakers. In some cases, especially in the case of the “lesser-used” languages, this information may have been inferred from the preferred quotation marks used by a “dominant” language in the area in which the “lesser-used” language is found. Most languages have no official institutions, but are described in dictionaries, educational materials, scholarly linguistic texts, and other kinds of documents. www.evertype.com /alphabets   (3504 words)

Glenn Humphries' tree of sino-tibetan languages PROTO SINO-TIBETAN ASIATIC (A theoretical language of unknown origin) "Proto Sino-Tibetan Asiatic" languages could possibly be divided into about five groups; the Ainu language, the Gilyak language, the Eskimo-Aleut languages, the Chukchi-Kamchadal languages, and the the Sino-Tibetan languages. Other languages which were influential to the develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather that what the speakers of the language called their language. This is a simplified diagram of the relationship of various modern and obsolete languages showing their development throughout history from various older languages, mostly now extinct. glenn.humphries.com /sinotibetan.htm   (291 words)

Inupiaq and the Schools, A Handbook for Teachers If the youngest generation does not speak a language, this indicates that the language is not being passed on in the way it has traditionally been during its entire past history, as all languages are passed on from parent to child, assuring the continuity of language. Many young people barely spoke their native language while they were away from home, so that they got into the habit of conversing mostly in English and remained with language skills which would traditionally have been appropriate only to children, since in all languages child speech matures naturally as the speaker nears adulthood. The second branch of the Eskimo language family, Inuit or Inupiaq is considered a single language which extends across the arctic regions of the western hemisphere from the Bering Strait to Greenland. www.alaskool.org /language/inupiaqhb/Inupiaq_Handbook.htm   (9770 words)

iahessay The Eskimo language is a dialect spoken by coastal native people from the east of Siberia to Greenland. Eskimos are people who live in the Arctic. Language is the aid humans use to express how they view the external world in its entirety. www.msu.edu /~joneslar/iahessay.htm   (1150 words)

Arctic societies The two Eskimo languages are more closely related to each other than either is to Aleut, and this is also true for other aspects of culture, suggesting split of proto-Aleut from proto-Eskimo several thousand yrs. In sum, archaeological work in last few decades reveals that Eskimos and Aleuts have common ancestry in Bering Sea coastal region, going back perhaps 6-8000 years (which might also be the time that proto-Aleut-Eskimos first entered No. America from the Siberian side of the Berins Sea) As for Caribou Eskimo, rather than being remnants of original Arctic culture, now known to be a very late and atypical extension of Eskimo culture deep into interior, with year-round interior residence a result of Euroamerican influence (i.e., dependent on availability of guns and fur-trading opportunities) courses.washington.edu /anth310/arctic.htm   (4096 words)

Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family Volume 2, Lexicon - Joseph H. Greenberg Since some of the relevant etymological material has already been published in the work of some Nostraticists, this volume emphasizes those etymologies involving Ainu, Gilyak, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut, languages generally omitted from Nostratic studies. The basic thesis of this two-volume work (Volume I. Grammar was published in 2000) is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from Europe across northern Asia to North America. The volume includes a classification of Eurasiatic languages, references cited, and semantic and phonetic indexes. www.sup.org /cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=4624   (349 words)

Aleut Reference, It is related to Eskimo but only distantly, the two languages being in no way mutually intelligible. 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. www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Aleut.htm   (148 words)

Alutiiq Museum and Archeological Repository - Kodiak, Alaska - Educational Handout - Alutiiq Language The traditional language of the Alutiiq people is Alutiiq (also known as Suk, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Pacific Eskimo, or Pacific Yup’ik) one of six Eskimo languages that is part of the broader Esk-Aleut language family (see chart below). Students throughout Alaska were repeatedly punished for speaking their Native languages. In part, this loss of language reflects the educational objectives of 20th century BIA schools, who sought to assimilate Native children. www.alutiiqmuseum.com /education/alutiiqlanguage.htm   (484 words)

Literacy: A Critical Element in the Survival of Aboriginal Languages. Chapter 16., Fogwill, Lynn Although Inuktitut is considered a highly viable language across the Arctic, Dene languages are declining in use and need aggressive intervention to ensure their survival. Literacy: A Critical Element in the Survival of Aboriginal Languages. Both missionary schools and federally administered public schools (1940s- 60s) disrupted the transmission of culture and language from one generation to the next. ericae.net /ericdb/ED386353.htm   (335 words)

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