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Eskimo-Aleut languages map

11 Eskimo-Aleut languages are on the map, most of them in United States, Russia and Canada. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Eskimo (10 languages). The best-known members include Central Alaskan Yupik, Central Siberian Yupik and Pacific Gulf Yupik. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Eskimo-Aleut family at a glance

  • 11languages
  • 10drawn as areas
  • 1shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Eskimo-Aleut alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Eskimo-Aleut languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Central Alaskan Yupik spoken? (about 17,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Central Siberian Yupik spoken? (about 1,800 speakers)
  3. Where is Pacific Gulf Yupik spoken? (about 450 speakers)
  4. Where is Aleut spoken? (about 200 speakers)
  5. Where is Naukan Yupik spoken? (about 50 speakers)

Branches of Eskimo-Aleut

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Eskimo (10)
  • Aleutic (1)

Where Eskimo-Aleut languages are spoken

Countries with the most Eskimo-Aleut languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 11 Eskimo-Aleut languages, A to Z

Questions about Eskimo-Aleut languages

How many Eskimo-Aleut languages are there?

11 living Eskimo-Aleut languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Eskimo (10 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken?

United States (6), Russia (3), Canada (3), Greenland (2) and Denmark (1) have the most Eskimo-Aleut languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Eskimo-Aleut languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Central Alaskan Yupik (about 17,000), Central Siberian Yupik (about 1,800) and Pacific Gulf Yupik (about 450). These figures differ between sources and years.

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