- Eskimo-Aleut language
- nounthe family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut• Syn: ↑Eskimo-Aleut• Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Eskimo-Aleut language
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Aleut language — language name=Aleut nativename = Unangam Tunuu states=Alaska (Aleutian and Pribilof Islands), Kamchatka Krai (Commander Islands) speakers=305 in 1995 familycolor=Eskimo Aleut fam2=Aleut group iso2=ale|iso3=aleAleut ( Unangam Tunuu ) is a language … Wikipedia
Eskimo-Aleut languages — Infobox Language family name=Eskimo Aleut altname=Eskaleut region=American Arctic, east Siberia familycolor=American family=Eskimo Aleut child1=Aleut child2=Eskimo map caption=Eskimo Aleut languages spoken in United States, Canada and… … Wikipedia
Eskimo-Aleut — noun the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut • Syn: ↑Eskimo Aleut language • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue • Hyponyms: ↑Eskimo, ↑Esquimau, ↑Aleut … Useful english dictionary
Aleut language — Aleut Unangam Tunuu, one of two branches of the Eskimo Aleut languages (q.v.). Two mutually intelligible dialects survive, Eastern Aleut and Atkan Aleut. A third dialect, Attu, now extinct in Alaska, survives on Bering Island (one of the … Universalium
Eskimo-Aleut languages — Family of languages spoken in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, U.S., and eastern Siberia by the Eskimo and Aleut peoples. Aleut, distantly related to the Eskimo languages, consists of eastern and western dialects; today both are spoken by fewer than… … Universalium
Eskimo-Aleut languages, Table — ▪ Table language fluent population* speakers* Eskimo Inuit Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallisut) 46,000 46,400 Eastern Canadian Inuit (Inuktitut) 12,400 14,000 Western Canadian Inuit (Inuktitun) 4,000 7,300 North Alaskan Inuit (Inupiaq) 3,000 15,500… … Universalium
Eskimo-Aleut — noun Date: 1921 a language family including Eskimo and Aleut languages … New Collegiate Dictionary
Eskimo-Aleut — noun A language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. Syn: Eskaleut, Eskale … Wiktionary
Eskimo — [es′kə mō΄] n. [earlier Esquimaw(es), prob. via Fr < Sp esquimao(s) (used by 16th c. Basque fishermen in Labrador) < Montagnais ayashkimew, lit., ? snowshoe net makers ] 1. pl. Eskimos or Eskimo a member of a group of indigenous North… … English World dictionary
Aleut — Infobox Ethnic group group = Aleut Traditional Aleut dress pop = 17,000 to 18,000 region1 = flagcountry|United States pop1 = 17,000 [including 5,000 part AleutFact|date=February 2007] ref1 = region2 = flagcountry|Russia pop2 = 700 ref2 =… … Wikipedia
