Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Inuit languages, Eskimo-Aleut languages, Tlingit language, Coast Tsimshian language, Tanacross language, Haida language, Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yupik languages, Inupiat language, Central Siberian Yupik language, Eyak language, Gwich'in language, Tsimshianic languages, Dena'ina language, Han language, Koyukon language, Alutiiq language, Northern Athabaskan languages, Upper Tanana language, Deg Xinag language, Ahtna language, Holikachuk language, Lower Tanana language, Upper Kuskokwim language, Alaska Native Language Center, Tanana languages. Excerpt: Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula on the eastern tip of Siberia. It is also known as Eskaleut, Eskaleutian, Eskaleutic, Eskimish, Eskimoan, and Macro-Eskimo or Inuit-Unangan. The Eskimo-Aleut language family is divided into two branches, the Eskimo languages and the Aleut language. The Aleut language family consists of a single language, Aleut, spoken in the Aleutian Islands and the Pribilof Islands. Aleut is divided into several dialects. The Eskimo languages are divided into two branches, the Yupik languages, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska and in easternmost Siberia, and the Inuit language, spoken in northern Alaska, in Canada, and in Greenland. The Inuit language, which covers a huge range of territory, is divided into several dialects. The proper place of one language, Sirenik, within the Eskimo family has not been settled. Some linguists list it as a branch of Yupik, others as a separate branch of the Eskimo family, alongside Yupik and Inuit. It is thought that the common ancestral language of the Eskimo languages and of Aleut divided into the Eskimo and Aleut branches around 2000 BCE. The Eskimo language family divided into the Yupik and Inuit bran...