public_comment: "Inupiaq is the collective term for the dialects of Western Eskimo (q.v.) 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 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. (Golla et al. 2010.)
Ethnologue (2013) considers Inupiaq [ipk] a "macrolanguage" which includes: North Alaskan Inupiatun [esi] and Northwest Alaska Inupiatun [esk]. Others do not make this distinction. ",
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ethnic_population: "13,500",
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public_comment: "Population total all languages: 5,580 (2013).",
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speaker_number: "10000-99999",
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ethnic_population: "46,300",
date_of_info: "2007",
public_comment: "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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public_comment: "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. ",