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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The language family containing the Eskimoan and Aleut languages.

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  • proper noun A language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut

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Examples

  • Regardless of politics though, the term Eskimo-Aleut remains the term of choice for linguists to refer to the language family with which Inuktitut, Yupik and Aleut are affiliated.

    A note about 'Inuit' and 'Eskimo' 2008

  • Regardless of politics though, the term Eskimo-Aleut remains the term of choice for linguists to refer to the language family with which Inuktitut, Yupik and Aleut are affiliated.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Speakers of Cherokee say no-qui-si.xix And in West Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut tongue, the word is ulluriaq.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • With the health of Eskimo-Aleut terrain now at stake, is anyone entitled to discourage its inhabitants many already bilingual in Danish from acquiring competence in English?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Inuit, a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family that, via Danish, gave Global English the word kayak, now has fewer than fifty thousand speakers.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Speakers of Cherokee say no-qui-si.xix And in West Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut tongue, the word is ulluriaq.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Inuit, a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family that, via Danish, gave Global English the word kayak, now has fewer than fifty thousand speakers.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • With the health of Eskimo-Aleut terrain now at stake, is anyone entitled to discourage its inhabitants many already bilingual in Danish from acquiring competence in English?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Plus, it helps that the underlying stop in the Proto-Steppe plural marker *-it is confidently word-final as both Uralic and Eskimo-Aleut show.

    Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person 2009

  • There's a proposed connection between Indo-European and Eskimo-Aleut other than Nostratic?

    Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person 2009

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