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Inupiatun, North Alaskan

A language of United States

ISO 639-3: esi

Population	Name used in US Census is Inupiak. May include Northwest Alaska Inupiatun [esk]. Ethnic population: 6,420 (2000 census).
Region	Alaska, Norton Sound and Point Hope. Also in Canada.
Language map	United States of America, Alaska and Hawaii
Alternate names	“Eskimo” , Inupiat, North Alaskan Inuktitut, North Alaskan Inupiat
Dialects	North Slope Inupiatun (Point Barrow Inupiatun), West Arctic Inupiatun, Point Hope Inupiatun, Anaktuvik Pass Inupiatun.
Classification	Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Inuit A member of macrolanguage Inupiaq [ipk] (United States).
Language use	Mainly older adults.
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1969.
Writing system	Latin script.

Also spoken in:

Canada

Language name	Inuktitut, North Alaskan
Population	All Inuktitut varieties 32,775.
Region	Mackenzie delta region including Aklavik and Inuvik, into Alaska, USA.
Language map	Canada, reference number 1
Alternate names	“Eskimo” , Inupiaq, Inupiat, North Alaskan Inupiat
Dialects	West Arctic Inupiatun (Western Iñupiaq, Mackenzie Inupiatun, Mackenzie Delta Inupiatun), North Slope Inupiatun.
Language use	Most older than 30 years. Also use English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CANONGE, Elliott; WEBSTER, Donald, editors. 1968. A teacher’s guide for teaching English to native children of Alaska.

NIVENS, Richard, author. 1986. Grammatical relations in Eskimo: a response to Kalmár.

SEILER, Wolf, author. 1978. The modalis case in Iñupiat.

STEVEN, Norma, author. 1986. Teaching writing to the Inupiat Eskimos.

WEBSTER, Donald, author. 1962. "A tagmemic analysis of the Barrow Eskimo verb complex."

WEBSTER, Donald; WEBSTER, Thelma, authors. 1967. Let’s learn Eskimo.

WEBSTER, Donald; ZIBELL, Wilfried, authors. 1970. Iñupiat Eskimo dictionary.

Vernacular Publications

Can you read English? Then you can... also read Eskimo. 1968.

Iñupiam uḲaluŋi 1. 1969.

Iñupiam uḲaluŋi 1-3. n.d.

Iñupiam uḲaluŋi 2. 1969.

Iñupiat suuvat?. 1968.

Unipkaat coloring book. 1966.