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Eskimo-Aleut

This group collects members of the Eskimo-Aleut family, spoken across the Arctic and subarctic from the Aleutian Islands through Alaska and Arctic Canada to Greenland, comprising the Eskimoan branch (the Inuit and Yupik languages) and the separate Aleut branch, together the northernmost indigenous language family of this subcategory's roster. Placement follows each member's own description naming it Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimoan or Aleut.

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Arctic North America and northeastern Asia 1
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1. Wikipedia: Eskimo-Aleut Languages
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The Eskaleut, Eskimo-Aleut or Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
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