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  Inuit language phonology and phonetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Consonants are arranged with five places of articulation: bilabial, alveolar, palatal, velar and uvular; and three manners of articulation: voiceless stops, voiced continuants and nasals, as well as two additional sounds — voiceless fricatives.
Inupiatun and has an additional manner of articulation - retroflex - which adds two consonants to it, and three consonants to Qawiaraq variants.
In western Alaska, Qawiaraq and to some degree the Malimiutun variant of Inupiatun retains an additional vowel /ə/ which was present in proto-Inuit and is still present in Yupik, but which has become /i/ or sometimes /a/ in all other dialects.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuit_language_phonology_and_phonetics   (2070 words)

  
 Inuit language - All About All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
Qawiaraq is spoken on the southern side of the Seward Peninsula and the Norton Sound area.
It was also in the past spoken in Chukotka, particularly Big Diomede island, but appears to have vanished in Russian areas through assimilation into Yupik, Chukchi and Russian speaking communities.
www.allaboutall.info /article/Inuit_language   (2979 words)

  
 Western Folklore: story of the King Island wolf dance, than and now, The
The motif number appears next to the line, or lines, of the story where that particular motif is found.
Another motif that the King Island version of the story shares only with the Qawiaraq (Kawerak) version of the story was recorded from William Oquilluk (cf.
In both stories, the hunter sees a vision of swallows fly ing quickly into holes in the side of a hill, and just as quickly, the heads of wolves pop out and start dancing (see Agnazungaaq's and Koyuk's versions, marked with motif "5").
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_200110/ai_n8986042   (1303 words)

  
 The Iñupiaq Language
There are a number of sub-dialects of Iñupiaq divided into two main groups: the Northern Alaskan Iñupiaq and Seward Peninsula Inupiaq dialects.
Northern Alaskan includes North Slope and Malimiut, while Seward Peninsula comprises of Bering Strait, and Qawiaraq.
I do not know in which group the Nuamiu dialect fits (from Alaska Native Languages–Inupiaq).
www.languagegeek.com /inu/inupiaq.html   (139 words)

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