Words in ten varieties of Eskimo are arranged in comparative sets with English equivalents. Related vocabulary in five Inuit dialect groups, four Yupik languages, and the nearly extinct Sirenikski of Siberia are compared, and related words in Aleut are include when possible. The Eskimo-Aleut language family is descended from the common Proto-Eskimo-Aleut, and its related languages are spoken in an unbroken chain stretching from Siberia to Greenland.

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: With Aleut Cognates (Alaska Native Language Center Research Paper, No. 9)

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Michael Fortescue

Steven Jacobson

Lawrence Kaplan

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Alaska Native Language Center

<p>Title: Comparative Eskimo Dictionary( With Aleut Cognates - Second Edition) Binding: Paperback Author: MichaelD.Fortescue Publisher: UniversityofAlaskaPress</p>

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates

<p>This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two language families of North America that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia. It brings together all that has been proposed to date under the respective rubrics of the Uralo-Siberian (Eskimo-Yukaghir-Uralic) hypothesis and the Dene-Yeniseian hypothesis. The evolution of the two parallel research strategies for fleshing out these linguistic links between North America and Asia are compared and contrasted. Although focusing on stringently controlled linguistic reconstructions, the volume draws upon archaeological and human genetic data where relevant.</p>

Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 17)

Western Washington University

University of Copenhagen

and Edward Vajda

Words, Language & Grammar

BRILL

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