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Name: North Alaska Inupiaq Type: Language Alternate Names: Inupiatun, North Alaskan; North Alaskan Inupiat; Inupiat; Inupiaq; "Eskimo"; Inuit; Eskimo; Alaskan Inuit; Iñupiaq; Inupiatun (North Alaskan); North Alaskan Inupiaq; North Alaska Iñupiaq; Alaskan Inupiaq; North Alaskan Inupiatun; North Alaskan Eskimo; Inudiatun Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: Name used in US Census is Inupiak. May include Northwest Alaska Inupiatun [esk]. Ethnic population: 6,420 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 4528 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 3500 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: esi Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Subgroup: Eastern Eskimo; Inuit; Inuit-Inupiaq; Inupiaq; Iñupiaq-Inuktitut (inui) Child Dialects: North Slope; North Slope Inupiatun; Point Barrow Inupiatun; Point Barrow Eskimo (esi-nor) Malimiutun; Southern Malimiut Inupiatun; Malimiut; Mahlemiut (esk-smi) Malimiutun; Northern Malimiut Inupiatun; Malimiut (esk-nor) Brief Description: "Inupiaq is the collective term for the dialects of Western Eskimo (q.v.) spoken in Alaska and immediately adjacent parts of Northern Canada. There are two major dialect groups, Seward Peninsula Inupiaq (Qawiaraq) and North Alaskan Inupiaq. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq includes the local dialects of the southern Seward Peninsula and Norton Sound area, and of the villages surrounding Bering Strait and on King and Diomede Islands. North Alaskan Inupiaq includes the Malimiut dialect around Kotzebue Sound and the North Slope dialect spoken along the Arctic Coast as far east as the Mackenzie Delta. The Seward Peninsula and North Alaskan dialect groups differ significantly from each other and a fair amount of experience is required for a speaker of one to understand a speaker of the other. There are about 13,500 Inupiat (the plural from, referring to the people collectively) in Alaska, of whom about 3,000, mostly over the age 40, speak the language." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed