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Eskimo-Aleut

Eskimo-Aleut

9.9
A group of related languages including Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut spoken in Arctic North America and Siberia
  • noun
  • /ˈɛskɪmoʊ əˈluːt/
  • Offensive
translation icon : familia esquimo-aleutiana (ofensivo)
  • The final migration Turner proposes was the spread of the Eskimo-Aleut peoples, a population that came to inhabit the northern fringes of North America.

Examples

  • The Eskimo-Aleut family consists of nine languages spoken by about 85,000 people.

  • Furthermore, variations in language characteristics suggest the Eskimo-Aleut languages that now stretch across northern Canada are no older than about 3,000 years, he points out.

  • The final migration Turner proposes was the spread of the Eskimo-Aleut peoples, a population that came to inhabit the northern fringes of North America.

Synonyms

Eskimo-Aleut language
vsEskimo-Aleut
  • Offensive
9.8

A family of languages spoken in the Arctic regions of North America and Siberia, like Inuit and Aleut

is the shorter label that drops the explicit word for language

Surface Forms

Eskimo-Aleut singular
Eskimo-Aleut languages plural

Morphology

Eskimo-Aleut = Eskimo + Aleut (transparent) = Eskimo + Aleut

The hyphenated compound directly names the two ethnonyms, so learners can infer it denotes the language family including Eskimo (Inuit/Yupik) and Aleut.

Etymology

Eskimo-Aleut joins Eskimo, a traditional name for Inuit and Yupik peoples, and Aleut, the people of the Aleutian Islands. So Eskimo-Aleut simply means the family of languages spoken by those Arctic peoples.