Proto-Eskimo language

Proto-Eskimo was the ancestor of the Eskimo languages. A reconstruction of the Proto-Eskimo sound system can be found in Fortescue et al. 1994:xi.

References

Fortescue, Michael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan. 1994. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language Center.

Eskimo–Aleut languages and dialects

Aleut	Aleut

Inuit¹	Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktun Inuinnaqtun (disputed) Kangiryuarmiutun Inuktitut North Baffin (disputed) Inuttitut Inupiaq (Iñupiaq Braille) Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Inuvialuktun Aivilik Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik North Baffin (disputed) Siglitun Utkuhiksalik

Yupik	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik²

See also	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo-Aleut Inuktitut syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Yugtun script

Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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Proto-Eskimo language

References

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