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North America
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Severely Endangered

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~3,000

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There are about 13,500 Inupiat (the plural form, referring to the people collectively) in Alaska, of whom about 3,000, mostly over age 40, speak the language.

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2008

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USA, Alaska; Canada;

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English

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Native Speakers Worldwide

26,644

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46,300

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2,144 Alaska, 24,500 Canada. Population: 15,700 Alaska, 30,500 Canada. (Also 47,000 speakers and population in Greenland.)

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2014

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USA, Alaska; Canada;

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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USA, Alaska; Canada

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68.3217, -133.532; 71.2725, -156.7749; 66.8972, -162.5855; 64.5433, -163.029; 64.9728, -168.0616; 65.755, -168.9167

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13,500

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Population total all languages: 5,580 (2013).

Year of info

2007

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USA; Canada

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Alaska and Northeastern Canada

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Alaska and Northeastern Canada

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Inupiaq is the collective term for the dialects of Eastern Eskimo spoken in Alaska and immediately adjacent parts of Northern Canada. There are two major dialect groups, Seward Peninsula Inupiaq (Qawiaraq) and North Alaskan Inupiaq. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq includes the local dialects of the southern Seward Peninsula and Norton Sound area, and of the villages surrounding Bering Strait and on King and Diomede Islands. North Alaskan Inupiaq includes the Malimiut dialect around Kotzebue Sound and the North Slope dialect spoken along the Arctic Coast as far east as the Mackenzie Delta. The Seward Peninsula and North Alaskan dialect groups differ significantly from each other and a fair amount of experience is required for a speaker of one to understand a speaker of the other.

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. North America
    Golla, Victor. 2007. "North America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 1-96. London & New York: Routledge.
  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. North Slope Iñupiaq Grammar: First Year
    MacLean, Edna Ahgeak. 1986. "North Slope Iñupiaq Grammar: First Year." Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska.