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Which language families have been proposed as possible relatives of Eskimo-Aleut?
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Various language families have been proposed as potential relatives of the Eskimo-Aleut languages, but in the absence of conclusive evidence, the stock is considered to be isolated.12
Proposed relationships remain conjectural and include:
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan1
- Uralic13
- Indo-European1
While these connections have been suggested by some researchers, they lack substantive support, and the Eskimo-Aleut family is generally treated as an independent linguistic group.12