Eskimo-Aleutian Natural Languages

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• - Article by Michael E. Krauss discussing whether American languages came from Asia and the links between specific families.
  
• - Clickable map to language information and local resources.
  
• - History of the Inuit use of Latin, pictorial, Cyrillic, and syllabic writing systems, from Siberia to Greenland. Covers missionary-, Inuit-, and government-developed systems.
  
• - Phonological differences between the four Yupik (or Western Eskimo) languages of the Gulf of Alaska, southwestern Alaska, and easternmost Siberia, and the Inuit (or Eastern Eskimo) language continuum of northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.
  
• - Steven J. Derose debunks the modern myth that Yup'ik has an endless vocabulary to describe snow.
  
• - Discusses the various systems developed, mostly by missionaries, for representing Greenlandic, Inuttut, Yupik, and other dialects in Roman characters, picture writing, and syllabics.
  
• - Unesco publication describing the present state of Arctic languages and the changes that have taken place in social attitudes in the Arctic regions since the Second World War (PDF format).
  
• - Detailed information about the six major languages in the group.