Eskimo-Aleutiann.adj.
/ˌɛskᵻməʊəˈl(j)uːʃn/, U.S. /ˌɛskəmoʊəˈl(j)uʃ(ə)n/ A. n.
A language family comprising the Eskimo languages and the Aleut language. Cf. Eskimo-Aleut n.
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1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 405 A common Uralian language with which also Eskimo-Aleutian appears to be related.
1964 M. Swadesh in J. D. Jennings & E. Norbeck Prehist. Man in New World 531 The last extant language to enter the New World was apparently the forerunner of Eskimo-Aleutian.
1999 Anthropol. Linguistics 41 418 Dolgopolsky himself earlier proposed Chukotan and Eskimo-Aleutian for membership in Nostratic.
B. adj.
Of or relating to this language family or its speakers.
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Inuit1862
Yuit1881
Eskimo-Aleutian1936
Eskimo-Aleut1947
Inupiaq1947
Inupik1951
Yupik1951
Inuktitut1976
1936 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. 17/4 Philologians are not yet certain whether the Eskimo-Aleutian languages had the same origin as any other known group.
1988 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 17 310 Greenberg excludes from Amerind the Eskimo-Aleutian and Athapascan languages.
2005 W. Marder Indians in Americas 15 The Eskimo-Aleutian speakers in the Arctic..occupied the area prior to the last Wisconsin ice age.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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