The Inupiat language, also known as Inupiatun, Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, Inyupiaq, Inyupiat, Inyupeat, Inyupik, and Inupik, is a group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska. The Iñupiaq language is a member of the Eskimo languages group. There are roughly 2,100 speakers of Iñupiaq (Krauss, 2007). The speakers are known as Inupiat. The Iñupiaq letter ñ is pronounced as an English ny.
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