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{{Short description|Group of dialects of the Inuit language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Iñupiaq
| nativename       = Uqautchiq Iñupiatun, Uqałiq Iñupiatun, Qaġnuziq Inupiaqtun
| states           = [[United States]], formerly [[Russia]]; [[Northwest Territories]] of [[Canada]]
| region           = [[Alaska]]; formerly [[Big Diomede Island]]
| ethnicity        = 20,709 [[Iñupiat]] (2015)
| speakers         = 2,144, 7% of ethnic population
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The Iñupiaq language has been in decline since contact with [[English language|English]] in the late 19th century. American territorial acquisition and the legacy of [[American Indian boarding schools|boarding schools]] have created a situation today where a small minority of Iñupiat speak the Iñupiaq language. There is, however, revitalization work underway today in several communities.


[[File:Diagram of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family.png|thumb|Diagram of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family<ref name="lt4all">The Inuit-Yupik-Unangam Tunuu languages constitute the northernmost language family in the Western Hemisphere. Unangam Tunuu is indigenous to far southwest Alaska and the Aleutian Islands; the remaining languages constitute the Inuit-Y== History ==
The Iñupikaq language family. The eastern branch of the Inuit-Yupik family, the Inuit languages, represent a dialect continuum indigenous to the Arctic and near-Arctic coast of North America, encompassing Greenland and the north coast of Canada and Alaska. The western branch of the family, the Yupik languages, are indigenous to western Alaska and the Bering Strait region, including St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia. The Inuit-Yupik-Unganam Tunuu language family is notable as the only language family in the world indigenous to both North America and Asia. ... The Inuit-Yupik language family [was] historically been called the Eskimo language family. Schwartz, Lane. Dec 2019. [https://lt4all.elra.info/media/papers/O8/141.pdf Language Shift, Language Technology, and Language Revitalization]. Proceedings of the International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All):
Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide.</ref>]]

== History ==
The Iñupiaq language is a member of the [[Eskimo–Aleut languages|Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family]] and hasis an [[Inuit language]], the ancestors of which may have been spoken in the northern regions of Alaska for as long as 5,000 years. Between 1,000 and 800 years ago, Inuit migrated east from Alaska to Canada and [[Greenland]], eventually occupying the entire Arctic coast and much of the surrounding inland areas. The Iñupiaq dialects are the most conservative forms of the Inuit language, with less linguistic change than the other Inuit languages.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

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[[Category:Agglutinative languages]]
[[Category:Inupiat language]]
[[Category:Indigenous languages of Alaska]]
[[Category:Languages of Russia]]
[[Category:Indigenous languages of the North American Arctic]]
[[Category:Official languages of Alaska]]