Qawiaraq is the name usually given to the variants of Inuit language spoken in western Alaska, particularly to those spoken on the Seward Peninsula. The language of the Inuit people is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador. ... Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area Ranked 1st - Total 663,267 sq. ... The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula in western Alaska. ...
Consonants are arranged with five places of articulation: bilabial, alveolar, palatal, velar and uvular; and three manners of articulation: voiceless stops, voiced continuants and nasals, as well as two additional sounds — voiceless fricatives.
Inupiatun and has an additional manner of articulation - retroflex - which adds two consonants to it, and three consonants to Qawiaraq variants.
In western Alaska, Qawiaraq and to some degree the Malimiutun variant of Inupiatun retains an additional vowel /ə/ which was present in proto-Inuit and is still present in Yupik, but which has become /i/ or sometimes /a/ in all other dialects.
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