Inupiat language

Inupiaq
Iñupiatun
Native to	United States, formerly Russia; Northwest Territories of Canada
Region	Alaska; formerly Big Diomede Island
Ethnicity	Inupiat
Native speakers	2,000 (2006–2010)
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Inuit Inupiaq
Writing system	Latin (Iñupiaq alphabet) Iñupiaq Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ik
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual codes: esi – North Alaskan Inupiatun esk – Northwest Alaska Inupiatun
Glottolog	inup1234
Inuit dialects. Inupiat dialects are orange (Northern Alaskan) and pink (Seward Peninsula).
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Inupiat /ɪˈnjuːpiæt/, Inupiaq /ɪˈnjuːpiæk/, or Alaskan Inuit, is a group of dialects of the Inuit languages, spoken by the Inupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska. The Inupiat language is a member of the Yupik-Inuit languages. There are roughly 2,000 speakers.

The name is also rendered Inupiatun, Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, Inyupiaq,Inyupiat,Inyupeat,Inyupik, and Inupik.

The Iñupiaq category of number distinguishes singular, plural, and dual. Iñupiaq does not have a category of gender and articles. An Iñupiaq word consists of a base or stem, which is followed by postbases, endings, and enclitics.

The Inupiaq language is an Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language, also known as Eskimo-Aleut, has been spoken in the Northern regions of Alaska for at many as 5,000 years. Between 1,000 and 800 years ago, Inuit peoples migrated east from Alaska to Canada and Greenland, eventually occupying the entire Arctic coast and much of the surrounding inland areas. The Inupiaq dialects are the most conservative forms of the Inuit language, with less linguistic change than the other Inuit languages.