Where does the Inuit dialect continuum extend from Greenland to Alaska?

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The Inuit language is a single language formed by a series of intergrading dialects that extend thousands of miles, stretching from eastern Greenland across Arctic Canada to northern Alaska. In Alaska, this dialect continuum continues around the Seward Peninsula to Norton Sound, where it adjoins the Yupik languages.12

Because of the vast distances between populations, these dialects form a continuum where neighboring groups can understand one another, but cumulative linguistic differences can impede or prevent mutual intelligibility between groups located at significant distances from each other.2