The Inuit language branch became distinct and in only several hundred years spread across northern Alaska, Canada and into Greenland.

The Inuit of Greenland refer to themselves as " Greenlanders " and speak the Greenlandic language.

" However, even the Inuit people in Alaska refer to themselves as Inupiat ( the language is Inupiaq ) and do not typically use the term Inuit.

The Eskimo sub-family consists of the Inuit language and Yupik language sub-groups.

Greenlandic ( East Inuit language ), Danish, and English.

The Inuit language is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador.

The total population of Inuit speaking their traditional language is difficult to assess with precision, since most counts rely on self-reported census data that may not accurately reflect usage or competence.

These two countries count the bulk of speakers of Inuit language variants, although about 7, 500 Alaskans speak Inuit dialects out of a population of over 13, 000 Inuit.

So, the global population of speakers of Inuit language variants is on the order of over 90, 000 people.

The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages.

However, there are no clear criteria for breaking the Inuit language into specific member languages, since it forms a continuum of close dialects.

In Greenland the official form of Inuit language, and the official language of the state, is called Kalaallisut.

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

The Inuit language of Quebec is called Inuttitut by its speakers, and often by other people, but this is a minor variation in pronunciation.

Furthermore, Canadians – both Inuit and non-Inuit – sometimes use the word Inuktitut to refer to all of the Inuit language variants, including those of Alaska and Greenland.

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

Although still in college, Sapir was allowed to participate in Boas ' graduate seminar on American Languages which included translations of Native American and Inuit myths collected by Boas.

" One Cree speaker suggested the original word that became corrupted to Eskimo might indeed have been askamiciw ( which means " he eats it raw "), and the Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw ( which means " eats something raw ").

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.

The northernmost Yupik languages — Siberian Yupik and Naukanski Yupik — are linguistically only slightly closer to Inuit than is Alutiiq, which is the southernmost of the Yupik languages.

In September 2005 Dennis Schmitt discovered an island north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland which he named Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for " warming island ".

The Inuit name for the Great Auk was isarukitsck, which meant " little wing ".

* 1861-Charles Francis Hall, an American, camps at the Sylvia Grinnell River and explores the waters of Koojesse Inlet, which he names after his Inuit guide

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

Avery writes on his web site that " The admiration and respect which I hold for Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and the four Inuit men who ventured North in 1909, has grown enormously since we set out from Cape Columbia.

With him he took two Akeley motion-picture cameras which the Inuit referred to as " the aggie ".

Among Inuit peoples the laity have experiences which are commonly attributed to the shamans of those Inuit groups.

One of Whorf's examples of this was the supposedly many words for ' snow ' in the Inuit language, which has later been shown to be a misrepresentation but also for example how the Hopi language describes water with two different words for drinking water in a container versus a natural body of water.

Three Moravian missionaries under Matthias Stach arrived in 1733 and began the first of a series of mission stations at Neu-Herrnhut ( which later developed into the modern capital Nuuk ), but a returning Inuit child brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years.

The GTC folded in 1774 and was replaced by the Royal Greenland Trade Department ( Kongelige Grønlandske Handel, KGH ), which recognized that the island possessed neither fertile farmland nor easily-accessible mineral wealth and that income would be dependent on the whaling and seal-hunting trade with the native Inuit.

Peary also relied on the Inuit as hunters and dog-drivers on his expeditions, and pioneered the use of the system ( which he called the " Peary system ") of using support teams and supply caches for Arctic travel.

Another name for overtone singing is throat singing, but that term is also used for Inuit throat singing, which is produced differently.

It particularly applied to those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

The word " Naskapi " ( meaning " people beyond the horizon ") first made an appearance in the 17th century and was subsequently applied to Innu groups beyond the reach of missionary influence, most notably those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun, the Inuit underworld.

The monstrous race begotten by the Adlet was identified with inland native Americans by the Labrador and Hudson Bay tribes ; Inuit from Greenland and Baffin Land, which had no native American neighbors, use the term to refer to the half human, half canine creatures.

" A reading of the account as a " Whaler myth ," in a culture in which the Inuit were economically dependent on the mechanically superior products supplied by the European whalers, the story transforms material dependence on the white whaler into a reciprocal relationship, whereby the European comes back to repay his mother.

Either the tradition dates back to when the Inuit first made contact with Europeans ( which they consider highly unlikely ), or, more likely, it is the adaptation of an already existing tradition, modified to account for the coming of the Europeans.

The Kativik Regional Government covers a territory of about 500, 000 km² and includes a population of just over 10, 000 persons, of which about 90 % are Inuit.

Her huge fingers become the seals, walruses, and whales hunted by the Inuit.