Eskimo language

Eskimo consists of two divisions: Yupik, spoken in Siberia and southwestern Alaska, and Inuit, spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Each division includes several dialects. The proposed relationship of Eskimo-Aleut with other language families, such as Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Uralic, and/or Indo-European, remains conjectural.

…falls into two related divisions, Eskimo and Aleut. The term “Eskimo” was long used to refer to the Inuit, but it is now considered to be pejorative and offensive; “Aleut” is the name the Russians used for the people who use the self-name Unangan and who call their language Unangam…