The term " Eskimo " is also used worldwide in linguistic or ethnographic works to denote the larger branch of Eskimo – Aleut languages, the smaller branch being Aleut.

An overview of the Eskimo – Aleut languages family is given below:

For example, dual number is not known in Sirenik Eskimo, while most Eskimo – Aleut languages have dual, including its neighboring Siberian Yupikax relatives.

The language of the Inuit is an Eskimo – Aleut language.

This suggests that they also spoke an Eskimo – Aleut language, but one quite distinct from the forms spoken in Canada today.

Some have thought two language families, Eskimo – Aleut and Na-Dené, were distinct, perhaps the results of later migrations into the New World.

In his 1987 book Language in the Americas, while supporting the Eskimo – Aleut and Na-Dené groupings as distinct, he proposed that all the other Native American languages belong to a single language macro-family, which he termed Amerind.

Rasmussen's " greatest achievement " was the massive Fifth Thule Expedition ( 1921 – 1924 ) which was designed to " attack the great primary problem of the origin of the Eskimo race.

** Arctic: Eskimo – Aleut

* Eskimo – Aleut

Support for Peary came again in 2005, however, when British explorer Tom Avery and four companions recreated the outward portion of Peary's journey with replica wooden sleds and Canadian Eskimo Dog teams, reaching the North Pole in 36 days, 22 hours – nearly five hours faster than Peary.

This leads to another debate ( see the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis or Eskimo words for snow ).

* Eskimo – 1979

* Eskimo ( DVD ) – 2002

* January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.

The vialis case in Eskimo – Aleut languages has a similar interpretation, used to express movement using a surface or way.

" The end of ' Eskimo land ': Yupik relocation in Chukotka, 1958-1959 " Études / Inuit / Studies 31 ( 1-2 ) pp 59 – 81.

The Central Alaskan Yupik are by far the most numerous of the various Alaska Native groups and speak the Central Alaskan Yup ' ik language, a member of the Eskimo – Aleut family of languages.

These include the Uralic languages of western Siberia ( better known for Hungarian and Finnish in Europe ), the Yeniseian languages ( linked to the Athabaskan languages of North America ), Yukaghir, Nivkh of Sakhalin, Ainu of northern Japan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan in easternmost Siberia, and — just barely — Eskimo – Aleut.

* Eskimo – Aleut: Aleuts, Siberian Yupiks ( Yuits )

As a result of the rainy climate, the Ferengi language has 178 different words for " rain " ( in a retread of the popular — but incorrect —" Eskimo postulate " of the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis ) and none for " crisp ".

The Aleut baidarka resembled that of an Eskimo Kayak, however, it was designed to be much more aerodynamically fast which was perfect for sea hunting.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.

Many words are formed from entirely different roots than in Siberian Yupik, but even the grammar has several peculiarities not only among Eskimo languages, but even compared to Aleut.

The kayak was first made and used by the native Ainu, Aleut and Eskimo hunters in sub-Arctic regions of northeastern Asia, North America and Greenland.

The Sirenikski language, which is virtually extinct, is sometimes regarded as a third branch of the Eskimo language family, but other sources regard it as a group belonging to the Yupik branch.

The Sirenikski language is sometimes regarded as a third branch of the Eskimo language family, but other sources regard it as a group belonging to the Yupik branch.

With his first attempt ruined, Flaherty decided to not only return for new footage, but also to refocus the film on one Eskimo family as he felt his earlier footage was too much of travelogue.

Eskimo – Aleut is a language family native to Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Greenland, and the Chukchi Peninsula on the eastern tip of Siberia.

The Eskimo – Aleut language family is divided into two branches, the Eskimo languages and the Aleut language.

The proper place of one language, Sirenik, within the Eskimo family has not been settled.

Some linguists list it as a branch of Yupik, others as a separate branch of the Eskimo family, alongside Yupik and Inuit.

The Eskimo language family divided into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1000 CE.

More recently Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) suggested grouping Eskimo – Aleut with all of the language families of northern Eurasia, with the exception of Yeniseian, in a proposed language family called Eurasiatic.

The following is a comparison of cognates among the basic vocabulary across the Eskimo – Aleut language family ( about 60 words ).

File: Eskimo Family NGM-v31-p564. jpg | An Eskimo family ( National Geographic Magazine June 1917 )

* Pea family ( Fabaceae, Faboideae )-Alpine milk vetch ( Astragalus alpinus ), Arctic Oxytrope ( Oxytropis arctica ), Blue Oxytrope ( Oxytropis arctobia ), Liquorice-Root ( Eskimo Potato ) ( Hedysarum alpinum ), Sweet Vetch ( Hedysarum mackenziei ), Yellow Oxytrope ( Oxytropis maydelliana )

Aleut ( Unangam Tunuu ) is a language of the Eskimo – Aleut language family.

The Eskimo – Aleut languages, and the Kiranti branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family are particularly well known for their many contrasts.

They speak Central Siberian Yupik ( also known as Yuit ), a Yupik language of the Eskimo – Aleut family of languages.

As mentioned, Sireniki is peculiar in this aspect not only among Eskimo languages, but even in the entire Eskimo – Aleut language family, even its neighboring Siberian Yupik relatives have dual.

Other proposals, further back in time ( and proportionately less accepted ), link Indo-European and Uralic with Altaic and the other language families of northern Eurasia, namely Yukaghir, Korean, Japanese, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, Ainu, and Eskimo – Aleut, but excluding Yeniseian ( the most comprehensive such proposal is Joseph Greenberg's Eurasiatic ), or link Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic to Afro-Asiatic and Dravidian ( the traditional form of the Nostratic hypothesis ), and ultimately to a single Proto-Human family.

Eskimo kinship is a category of kinship used to define family organization in anthropology.