Inupiaq

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Inupiaq (Iñupiak)

Spoken in

USA AlaskaAlaska Alaska (United States)
Linguistic
classification

Eskimo-Aleut languages

Eskimo languages
Inuit languages
  • Inupiaq
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

ik

ISO 639 -2

ipk

ISO 639-3

ipk (macro language)
includes languages:

  • esi (Inupiatun of Northern Alaska)
  • esk (Inupiatun of northwestern Alaska)

Inupiaq is a group of dialects of the Inuit languages spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska . In addition, Inupiaq (plural Inupiat ) also denotes those groups of Eskimos who speak this language (see Iñupiat ). The dialect is further subdivided into the two main groups Seward Inupiaq (Northwest Alaska) and North Alaska Inupiaq (North Alaska and the extreme Northwest of Canada).

Web links

Wikipedia on Inupiaq
Wiktionary: Inupiaq  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Nowak: Introduction to Inuktitut. (pdf, 603 kB) Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, May 2002, p. 4 , accessed on September 28, 2018 . Inupiay. University of Fairbanks Alaska Native Language Center, January 1, 2007, accessed September 28, 2018 .