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n. - A family of languages spoken in Greenland, Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, and the Islands near Alaska

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  • There's a proposed connection between Indo-European and Eskimo-Aleut other than Nostratic?
  • Speakers of Cherokee say no-qui-si.xix And in West Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut tongue, the word is ulluriaq.
  • To add to the complication however, not all Eskimo-Aleut speaking peoples find the term Eskimo insulting at all4.
  • Inuit, a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family that, via Danish, gave Global English the word kayak, now has fewer than fifty thousand speakers.
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