Inuit de alaska. The people singular. The inuit or eastern eskimo language continuum is spoken in northern alaska canada and greenland. Which name to use.
Four distinct yupik or western eskimo languages are spoken along the shores of the gulf of alaska in southwestern alaska and on the easternmost tip of siberia. The human dimension of the arctic is the focus of i am inuit a project launched in july 2015 by the inuit circumpolar council alaska that connects people with the arctic through a shared humanity. The two main peoples known as eskimo are the inuit including the alaskan inupiat peoples the greenlandic inuit and the mass grouping inuit peoples of canada.
Se llaman a si mismo inuit en siberiano y en algunas lenguas de alaska yuit que significa la genteel termino esquimal se considera despectivo asi los llamaban los pueblos del sur significa devoradores de carne crudahabitat. Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the arctic coasts of alaska the eastern islands of the canadian arctic labrador. For the people who reside there alaskas arctic isnt a curiosity a wasteland or an untouched wilderness it is home.
The inuit languages are part of the eskimoaleut family. There are 229 federally recognized alaskan villages and five unrecognized tlingit alaskan indian tribes. The inuit live in most of the canadian arctic and subarctic regions occupying lands that stretched miles from parts of siberia along the alaskan coast across canada and on to greenland.
Alaskan natives in alaska number about 119241 as of the 2000 census. En los estados unidos y canada el termino esquimal fue comunmente utilizado por los europeos etnicos para describir a los inuit y los pueblos yupik e inupiat de alaska. Inuuk failed verification are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the arctic regions of greenland canada and alaska united states.
The two main peoples known as eskimo are the inuit including the alaskan inupiat peoples the greenlandic inuit and the mass grouping inuit. Another eskimo language the virtually extinct sirenikski of siberia is usually grouped with the yupik languages although it may. Inuit nj u t.
Inuit sign language is a critically endangered language isolate. Las tundras del norte de canada alaska y groenlandia. The name eskimo supposedly translates into eaters of raw fish and is looked upon by the inuit as being derogatory.
Although the name eskimo was commonly used in alaska to refer to inuit and yupik people of the world this usage is now considered unacceptable by many or even most alaska natives largely since it is a colonial name imposed by non indigenous people.