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Inupiaq, Iñupiaq, Inupiak or Inupiatun is a group of dialects of the Inuit language spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska. There are roughly 10,000 speakers of these dialects; the people are known as Inupiat. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Senators Ted Stevens (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,067,653 mi² / 1,717,854 km² (1st) - Land 1...
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Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of languages ordered by number of first-language speakers, with some data for second-language use. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Senators Ted Stevens (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,067,653 mi² / 1,717,854 km² (1st) - Land 1...
The Inupiat or Iñupiaq are the Inuit people of Alaskas Northwest Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits region. ...
Alaskan Inupiaq has three major dialect groups and five dialects.
The North Alaskan group includes:
1. The North Slope dialect, spoken along the Arctic coast as far south as Kivalina. Jump to: navigation, search ...
Kivalina is a city located in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska. ...
2. The Malimiut dialect, spoken south of Kivalina and around Kotzebue, along the Kobuk River and at the head of the Norton Sound, in Koyuk and Unalakleet. Kotzebue is a city located in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska. ...
The Kobuk River is a river, approximately 347 mi (555 km) long, in the Arctic region of northwestern Alaska in the United States. ...
The Norton Sound is an inlet of the Bering Sea in western Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula. ...
Koyuk is a city located in Nome Census Area, Alaska. ...
Unalakleet is a city located in Nome Census Area, Alaska. ...
Around the Anatuvuk Pass: Anaktuvuk Pass is a city located in North Slope Borough, Alaska. ...
3. The Nunamiu dialect.
The Seward Peninsula group: The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula in western Alaska. ...
4. The Bering Strait dialect, spoken on King Island and the Diomedes and in the villages north of Nome. King Island is an island in the Bering Sea, west of Alaska at 64°58N, 168°05W. It is about 64 km (40 miles) west of Cape Douglas and is south of Wales, Alaska. ...
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Nome is a city located in Nome Census Area, Alaska. ...
5. The Qawiaraq dialect, spoken in Teller, near the original village of Qawiaraq, and in the villages south of Nome as far as Unalakleet. Teller is a city located in Nome Census Area, Alaska. ...
Unalakleet is a city located in Nome Census Area, Alaska. ...
Linguistics The Inupiaq dialects, like other Eskimo-Aleut languages, represent a particular type of agglutinative language called a polysynthetic language: it "synthesizes" a root and various grammatical affixes to create long words with sentence-like meanings. Eskimo-Aleut (also called Inuit-Aleut, but both names are considered offensive by some) is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia. ...
Inupiaq has three basic vowels: 'a', 'i', and 'u'. As short vowels, 'a' is pronounced like the 'u' in English 'nut', 'i' is like the 'ee' in the English word 'sleep' and 'u' is like the 'u' in the English word 'rule'. There are long forms of the values, written 'aa', 'ii', and 'uu'. In Inupiaq, long and short vowels must be distinguished because they make a difference in word meanings. Short vowels may be joined to produce the diphthongs 'ai', 'ia', 'au', 'iu', and 'ui'.
Inupiaq has 14 consonants. All stops are voiceless, which means that Inupiaq has the sounds of English 'p', 't' and 'k' but not the sounds of English 'b', 'd', 'g'. The consonant written in Alaska as 'q' is like the English 'k' but pronounced further back in the throat. The Inupiaq sound written in Alaska as 'g' is pronounced like a French 'r'.
Writing Systems Inupiaq was first written when explorers first arrived in Alaska and began recording words in the native languages. They wrote by adapting the letters of their own language to writing the they were recording. Spelling was often inconsistent, since the writers invented it as they wrote. Unfamiliar sounds were often confused with other sounds, so that, for example, 'q' was often not distinguished from 'k' and long consonants or vowels were not distinguished from short ones.
In the 1946, Roy Ahmaogak, an Inupiaq Presbyterian minister from Barrow, worked with Eugene Nida, a member of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, to develop the current Inupiaq writing system based on the Roman alphabet. Although some changes have been made since its origin—most notably the change from 'k' to 'q'—the essential system was accurate and is still in use. Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ...
Barrow is a city located in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Eugene A. Nida is the developer of the dynamic equivalence translation theory. ...
External links - Ethnologue on North Alaskan Inupiatun
- Ethnologue on Northwest Alaska Inupiatun
- Alaskool Inupiaq Language Resources
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