Definitions
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 toGreenland , theCanadian Arctic ,Alaska , and parts ofSiberia .
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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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There's a proposed connection between Indo-European and Eskimo-Aleut other than Nostratic?
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