Eskimo-Aleut language

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Eskimo-Aleut language - the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut

Eskimo-Aleut

natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Eskimo, Esquimau - the language spoken by the Eskimo

Aleut - the language spoken by the Aleut

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Those who have followed Dumond's work over the years will be aware of his long-standing insistence that a cultural-historical framework for the Arctic should account for the distribution of the major language groups of the Eskimo-Aleut language family.

Hillside site, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: an examination of collections from the 1930s

Yupik is predominantly spoken in Alaska, a language that belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut languages.

Spoken languages in the US

The second and third migrations have left an impact only in Arctic populations that speak Eskimo-Aleut languages and in the Canadian Chipewyan who speak a Na-Dene language.