Eskimo-Aleut Languages - Classification of The Family

Classification of The Family

Eskimo–Aleut languages

Aleut

Western–Central dialects: Atkan, Attuan, Unangan, Bering (60–80 speakers)

Eastern dialects: Unalaskan, Pribilof (400 speakers)

Eskimo languages (or Yupik–Inuit languages)

Yupik

Central Alaskan Yup'ik (10,000 speakers)

General Central Alaskan Yup’ik language (or Yugtun)

Chevak Cup’ik (or Cugtun)

Nunivak Cup'ig (or Cugtun)

Alutiiq or Pacific Gulf Yupik (400 speakers)

Central Siberian Yupik or Yuit (Chaplinon and St. Lawrence Island, 1400 speakers)

Naukan (70 speakers)

Chaplinski

Sirenik (extinct) (viewed as an independent branch by some)

Inuit (98,000 speakers)

Inupiaq or Inupiat (northern Alaska, 3,500 speakers)

Qawiaraq (Seward Peninsula)

Inuvialuktun (western Canada, 765 speakers)

Kangiryuarmiutun (Ulukhaktok sometimes listed as Inuinnaqtun)

Siglitun (Paulatuk, Sachs Harbour, Tuktoyaktuk)

Uummarmiutun (Aklavik, Inuvik from Inupiaq)

Inuktitut (eastern Canada; together with Inuktun and Inuinnaqtun, 40,000 speakers)

Nunatsiavummiutut (Nunatsiavut, 550 speakers)

Inuttitut (Nunavik, 35,000 speakers)

Kalaallisut (Greenland, 54,000 speakers)

Inuktun (Avanersuarmiutut, Thule dialect or Polar Eskimo, approx 1,000 speakers)

Tunumiit oraasiat (East Greenlandic known as Tunumiisut, 3,500 speakers)