ABSTRACT
Language group comprised of Aleut (spoken in the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea, approx. 700 speakers) and Eskimo (with two branches, Yuit (Yupik) in east Siberia and southwest Alaska, and Inuit in north Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland, approx. 100,000), which themselves form dialect continua. The largest linguistic community is found in Greenland with approx. 43,000 speakers. There are possible relationships with Altaic and Yukagir ( Paleo-Siberian).
