Proto-Eskimo language

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Proto-Eskimo was the ancestor of all the Eskimo languages. A reconstruction of the Proto-Eskimo sound system can be found in Fortescue et al. 1994:xi.

References

Fortescue, Michael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan. 1994. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language Center.

v t e Eskimo–Aleut languages and dialects

Aleut	Aleut

Inuit¹	Greenlandic Tunumiit Inuktun Inuinnaqtun Inuktitut Nunatsiavummiutut Inuttitut Inupiaq Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Inuvialuktun Kangiryuarmiutun Natsilik Utkuhiksalik Siglitun

Yupik	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik²

See also	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo-Aleut

Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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Proto-Eskimo language

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