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Eskimo-Aleut

Eskimo-Aleut is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. It consists of Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit) and the Aleut language. The Eskimo-Aleut language family is tree is below:

Eskimo-Aleut

I. Eskimo
 A. Inuit
  1. Inuktitut: Eastern Canadian, Western Canadian
  2. Inupiatun: North Alaskan, Northwest Alaskan
 B. Yupik-Yuit
  1. Yupik: Pacific Gulf (Alutiiq), Central
  2. Yuit: St. Lawrence Island, Chaplino, Naukan, Sirenik
II. Aleut
 A. Western: Atkan, Attuan, Unangan, Bering
 B. Eastern: Unalaskan, Pribilof