dialect_varieties: "Inupiaq is the collective term for the dialects of Western 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 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. ",
public_comment: "Inuit (Eastern Eskimo) consists of a chain of dialects spoken in at least 165 settlements from Norton Sound in Northwestern Alaska to the East Coast of Greenland. The dialects at the opposite ends of this chain are not mutually intelligible, but the location of “language” boundaries is largely arbitrary. Mainly for political and cultural reasons three languages are distinguished, Inupiaq in Alaska, Inuktitut in Canada, and Greenlandic in Greenland. Each of these is subdivided into dialect clusters or emergent languages.
Inupiaq is the collective term for the dialects of Western 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 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. 2008.)",
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speakers: [
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id:7711,
code_id:4138,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "2,420",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2000",
public_comment: ""All Inuit languages: 75,000 out of 91,000 in the ethnic group (1995 M. Krauss). US Census lists this as 'Eskimo'." Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2000 census.
Northwest Alaskan Inupiaq [esk]: 5,580 (2010 census), decreasing. All Inuit languages: 75,000 out of 91,000 in the ethnic group (1995 M. Krauss). Census lists this as Eskimo. Ethnic population: All Inupiatun: 13,500 (includes [esi]) (Golla 2007) (2013).",
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source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:7712,
code_id:4138,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "6,432",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1521,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:7713,
code_id:4138,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "4,000",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:11045,
code_id:4138,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "3,000",
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semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "13,500",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "The figures given for number of native speakers and ethnic population are for all Inupiaq.
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. 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.",