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| | Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe |
 | | The exclusion of such languages from this report is not intended to imply any bias whatsoever against such “immigrant” languages or their speakers. | | | Most languages have no official institutions, but are described in dictionaries, educational materials, scholarly linguistic texts, and other kinds of documents. | | | In some cases, especially in the case of the “lesser-used” languages, this information may have been inferred from the preferred quotation marks used by a “dominant” language in the area in which the “lesser-used” language is found. |
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http://www.evertype.com/alphabets
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| | Eskimos |
| | Eskimos' Pringle previews end of a long run (The Toronto Star) | | | Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America.(Book Review) (Scandinavian Studies) | | | Eskimos consider themselves to be “Inuit” (The People). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002155.html
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| | Stephenson:Neal:Snow Crash:Raven - Metaweb |
| | The Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 was an attempt by United States Congress to compensate the survivors. | | | The Aleuts (self-denomination: Unangan) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of WikiPedia:Alaska. | | | Aleut seamstresses created finely stitched waterproof parkas from seal gut, and some women still master the skill of weaving fine baskets from rye and beach grass. |
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http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Raven
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| | Aleut - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Aleut |
| | Their language is a member of the Eskimo-Aleut family. | | | Kerick Booterin turned nearly white under his oil and smoke, for he was an Aleut, and Aleuts are not clean people. | | | Like the Eskimo Eskimo (ĕs`kəmō), a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Aleut
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| | Open Directory - Science:Social Sciences:Linguistics:Languages:Natural |
| | Beginning from the late Middle Ages there were attempts to use the Arab script for writing in a number of Caucasian languages. | | | This became the theory of Indo-European languages, and today the hypothetical language that would be the common source for all Indo-European languages is called Proto-Indo-European. | | | These languages are found primarily ont he island of New Guinea, but also on neighboring islands in Indonesia and the Solomon Islands. |
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/desc.html
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| | Native American Languages |
| | Perhaps 300 languages were spoken in Canada and the United States when the first Europeans arrived, and about 200 are still spoken by some 300,000 people. | | | While most languages have accusative case systems like that of English (opposing grammatical categories of subject and object), active systems in which the same morpheme is used to indicate the object of a transitive verb and the subject of a stative verb are not uncommon. | | | When such correspondences are discovered, the languages being compared are judged to have a historical connection, either genetic--because of descent from a common ancestor--or through language contact and the consequent "borrowing" of words. |
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http://www.indians.org/welker/americas.htm
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| | yourDictionary.com North American Languages: Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Dakota, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Seneca |
| | yourDictionary.com North American Languages: Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Dakota, Ojibwe, Mohawk, Seneca | | | Vocabulary of the Wyandot (Huron) Language by Col. John Johnson (1838) | | | Register to win a FREE travel electronic language dictionary. |
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http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/north.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Eskimo-Aleut (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia |
| | Eskimo-Aleut, family of Native American languages consisting of Aleut (spoken on the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Peninsula) and Eskimo or Inuktitut (spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia). | | | Aleut is the language of a few thousand people, and Eskimo is native to over 100,000 people. | | | Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/E/EskimoAl.html
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| | Vowels (from Eskimo-Aleut languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | family of languages spoken in Greenland, Canada, Alaska (United States), and eastern Siberia (Russia), by the Eskimo and Aleut peoples. | | | Aleuts speak two mutually intelligible dialects and are closely related to the Eskimo in language and culture. | | | Eskimo consists of two divisions: Yupik, spoken in Siberia and southwestern Alaska, and Inuit, spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-75298?tocId=75298
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| | iahessay |
| | Eskimos are people who live in the Arctic. | | | The Eskimo language is a dialect spoken by coastal native people from the east of Siberia to Greenland. | | | Language is the aid humans use to express how they view the external world in its entirety. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~joneslar/iahessay.htm
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| | Learn more about Language families and languages in the online encyclopedia. |
| | Most languages are known to belong to language families (called simply "families" for the rest of this article). | | | Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. | | | Sometimes a protolanguage can be identified with a historically known language. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/l/la/language_families_and_languages.html
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| | Eskimo-Aleut languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to Joseph Greenberg's highly controversial classification of the languages of Native North America, Eskimo-Aleut is one of the three main groups of Native languages spoken in the Americas, and represents a distinct wave of migration from Asia to the Americas. | | | It consists of the Eskimo languages, known as Inuit in the north of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, as Yup'ik in the west of Alaska, and as Yuit in Siberia, on the one side, and the single Aleut language on the other. | | | Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inupik
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| | Inuktitut language - the free encyclopedia |
| | The language is a member of theEskimo-Aleutgroup of languages. | | | It is related to the Aleut language, and together they form the Eskimo-Aleut family;while this has no proven wider affinities, some postulation hastaken place as to the relation of Inuktitut to the Indo-European languages and to theNostraticsuperphylum. | | | This is notaccurate, and results from a misunderstanding of the nature ofpolysynthetic languages. |
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http://www.aaez.biz/?t=Inuktitut_language
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| | The Eskimo-Aleut language of Canada |
| | I decided to investigate this particular language family because even though I know some about the Eskimo language of Inuktitut, I do not know anything about the Aleut and Yupik languages derived from this language family. | | | In her article, the author mentions that there are two Eskimo languages (Yupik and Inuktitut) which are spoken from Greenland to Siberia. | | | Sadock, Jerrold M. The nomalistic theory of Eskimo: A case study in scientific self-deception. |
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http://www.unh.edu/linguistics/courses/790CS/annotations/HW2/Aleut.Malena.HW2.htm
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| | An exercise in etymology |
| | Aleut, spoken in the Aleutian islands, is more distantly related to the other Eskimo languages. | | | But in the case of the first set, it is easy to identify cognates in the other modern Germanic languages and to find their historical ancestors in texts, and proto-Germanic forms can usually be reconstructed (I have not yet been able to do so for igle, 'leech'). | | | * But any neo-Whorfian language purists who think that my use of the term Eskimo somehow impugns any group of people, living or dead, are welcome to boycott my web page. |
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http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/lingua/history/iglu.html
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| | Inupiaq and the Schools, A Handbook for Teachers |
| | If the youngest generation does not speak a language, this indicates that the language is not being passed on in the way it has traditionally been during its entire past history, as all languages are passed on from parent to child, assuring the continuity of language. | | | Many young people barely spoke their native language while they were away from home, so that they got into the habit of conversing mostly in English and remained with language skills which would traditionally have been appropriate only to children, since in all languages child speech matures naturally as the speaker nears adulthood. | | | The second branch of the Eskimo language family, Inuit or Inupiaq is considered a single language which extends across the arctic regions of the western hemisphere from the Bering Strait to Greenland. |
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http://www.alaskool.org/language/inupiaqhb/Inupiaq_Handbook.htm
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| | Public Anthropology |
| | Eskimo and Aleut populations, on the other hand, have become more distantly linked biologically. | | | after 1000 A.D. may account for the divergent development of Eskimo and Aleut peoples. | | | It appears, from the article, that Eskimo skeletons are closely related to those of Northern Coast Indians, and that the Aleut skeletons are closer to Native Americans tribes like the Apache. |
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http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/Aa1987.htm
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| | Language |
| | This group of languages is spoken in the polar regions of North America, and western Siberia. | | | Note that the more familiar term 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory by some Native Americans; 'Inuit' is preferred. |
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http://www.wordgumbo.com/ea
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| | Arctic societies |
| | The two Eskimo languages are more closely related to each other than either is to Aleut, and this is also true for other aspects of culture, suggesting split of proto-Aleut from proto-Eskimo several thousand yrs. | | | In sum, archaeological work in last few decades reveals that Eskimos and Aleuts have common ancestry in Bering Sea coastal region, going back perhaps 6-8000 years (which might also be the time that proto-Aleut-Eskimos first entered No. America from the Siberian side of the Berins Sea) | | | Like Yup'ik Eskimos, Inupiat organized into clearly-bounded and often mutually-hostile societies of 300-900 members |
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http://courses.washington.edu/anth310/arctic.htm
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| | Language/eskimo words for snow derby |
| | The dialects spoken by coastal native peoples from the east of Siberia to Greenland are classed as Eskimo, but many scholars divide them into two languages, Yupik and Inuit, with some scholars further sub-dividing these dialects. | | | The Eskimo languages use derived words extensively, and there are fewer than 2,000 base stems in the West Greenlandic dialect[1] With all that said, I'll just present some word lists and let everyone come up with their own opinion... | | | The Eskimo languages are at the other extreme, and are the prototypical example of a polysynthetic language[2], wherein one word contains several elements of the situation. |
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http://tafkac.org/language/eskimo_words_for_snow_derby.html
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| | Smithsonian Institution, Anthropology Outreach Office: American Indian Languages References |
| | In 1492 there were at least 350 different languages spoken by the Native Americans north of Mexico, including Eskimos and Aleuts, and perhaps some 1,500 languages spoken in Mexico and Central and South America. | | | In addition, Greenlandic Eskimo is one of the two official languages of Greenland (together with Danish) and is used in all levels of local administration including the Greenland Parliament. | | | Few North American Indian languages are culturally or politically important today. |
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http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/indian_l.htm
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| | Eskimo on Encyclopedia.com |
| | They speak dialects of the same language, Eskimo, which is a major branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. | | | Eskimo Pie out in cold after its stock plunges.(Business Times)(Stock View) | | | In spite of regional differences, Eskimo groups are surprisingly uniform in language, physical type, and culture, and, as a group, are distinct in these traits from all neighbors. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/E/Eskimo.asp
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| | 2005-2006 UAF Catalog |
| | Eskimo languages are spoken by far northern people from the northeastern tip of Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland. | | | The Eskimo languages include the four Yup'ik languages of Alaska and Siberia as well as Inuit, the Alaskan sector of which is called Inupiaq. | | | Eskimo languages are the linguistic heritage of more than half of Alaska's Native population. |
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http://www.uaf.edu/catalog/current/programs/eskimo.html
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| | Glenn Humphries' tree of sino-tibetan languages |
| | PROTO SINO-TIBETAN ASIATIC (A theoretical language of unknown origin) "Proto Sino-Tibetan Asiatic" languages could possibly be divided into about five groups; the Ainu language, the Gilyak language, the Eskimo-Aleut languages, the Chukchi-Kamchadal languages, and the the Sino-Tibetan languages. | | | Other languages which were influential to the develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather that what the speakers of the language called their language. | | | This does not include languages in the families known as Finno-Ugric, Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, African, Ural-Altaic (Asiatic), American Indiginous, Andamanese, Caucasian, or Oceanic. |
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http://glenn.humphries.com/sinotibetan.htm
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| | Aleut Reference, |
| | It is related to Eskimo but only distantly, the two languages being in no way mutually intelligible. | | | Aleut is spoken by about 1,000 people in the Aleutian Islands and by a few hundred more on the Commander Islands, which belong to Russia. | | | Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Aleut.htm
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| | CUI 613 - Linguistics for ESL Teachers |
| | Eskimo language has a great number of suffixes but only one prefix. | | | This site tells about the language of the Cherokee. | | | This site has lots of examples of the pidginized language that was created by their need to trade and survive. |
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http://www.uncg.edu/cui/courses/coleman/613/content/noam.html
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Inuit |
| | Eskimo-Aleut Languages, family of at least six languages spoken across the Arctic from Siberia eastwards across Alaska and Canada to Greenland. | | | Eskimo Dog, any of several mixed breeds of large working and hunting dogs of northern North America, particularly Labrador and Greenland, related to... | | | Inuit, also referred to as Eskimo, several Arctic peoples inhabiting Nunavut and small enclaves in the coastal areas of Greenland, Alaska, and... |
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http://au.encarta.msn.com/Inuit.html
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| | Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Paleoasian languages |
| | Eskimo-Aleut languages - a family of languages spoken in the Chukotka Peninsula and the Bering Island (Russia), in Alaska and the Aleut Islands (USA), in the northern regions of Canada and in Greenland. | | | The Chukchi, Eskimo, Koryak and Nivkh written languages were created in the 1930's (first on the Latin, later Russian script). | | | Paleoasian (Paleosiberian) languages - a group of genetically unrelated languages spoken in Siberia and the Far East. |
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http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_paleoaz.html
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| | Eskimo-Aleut languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | It consists of (additional info and facts about Eskimo language) Eskimo languages (the languages of the (The language spoken by the Eskimo people) Eskimos) and the (additional info and facts about Aleut language) Aleut language. | | | (The language spoken by the Eskimo people) Eskimo | | | (The language spoken by the Aleut people) Aleut |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/es/eskimo-aleut_languages1.htm
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| | Alutiiq Museum and Archeological Repository - Kodiak, Alaska - Educational Handout - Alutiiq Language |
| | The traditional language of the Alutiiq people is Alutiiq (also known as Suk, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Pacific Eskimo, or Pacific Yup’ik) one of six Eskimo languages that is part of the broader Esk-Aleut language family (see chart below). | | | Students throughout Alaska were repeatedly punished for speaking their Native languages. | | | Many people understand the language when spoken to, but few can answer in Alutiiq. |
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http://www.alutiiqmuseum.com/education/alutiiqlanguage.htm
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