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Name: Seward Peninsula Inupiaq Type: Language Alternate Names: Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska; Northwest Alaska Inupiat; Inupiatun; "Eskimo"; Inuit; Eskimo; Inupiat; Alaskan Inuit; Seward Peninsula Iñupiaq; Alaskan Inupiaq; Northwest Alaska Inupiatun Spoken in: USA, Russia Number of speakers: 2,420 (2000 census), decreasing. All Inuit languages: 75,000 out of 91,000 in the ethnic group (1995 M. Krauss). US Census lists this as “Eskimo” (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 6432 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 4000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: esk Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Subgroup: Eastern Eskimo; Inuit; Inuit-Inupiaq; Inupiaq; Iñupiaq-Inuktitut (inui) Child Dialects: Bering Strait; King Island Inupiatun; Bering Strait Inupiatun (esk-kii) Qawiaraq; Kaviagmiut (esk-qaw) 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: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed