Editing Inuit languages (section)

=== Alaska ===
{{further|Inupiaq language}}

Of the roughly 13,000 Alaskan [[Iñupiat]], as few as 3000 may still be able to speak the Iñupiaq, with most of them over the age of 40.<ref name="Inupiaq">{{cite web |url=http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/langs/i.html |title=Alaska Native Languages: Inupiaq |publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424091828/http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/langs/i.html |archive-date=2006-04-24 |access-date=2012-02-20}}</ref> Alaskan Inupiat speak three distinct dialects, which have difficult mutual intelligibility:<ref>Linda Lanz (2010) ''A Grammar of Iñupiaq Morphosyntax'', PhD dissertation, Rice University</ref>

*Qawiaraq is spoken on the southern side of the [[Seward Peninsula]] and the [[Norton Sound]] area. In the past it was spoken in Chukotka, particularly [[Diomede Islands|Big Diomede island]], but appears to have vanished in Russian areas through assimilation into Yupik, [[Chukchi language|Chukchi]] and Russian-speaking communities. It is radically different in phonology from other Inuit language variants.
*Inupiatun (North Slope Iñupiaq) is spoken on the [[Alaska North Slope]] and in the [[Kotzebue Sound]] area.
*Malimiutun or Malimiut Inupiatun, which are the variants of the Kotzebue Sound area and the northwest of Alaska .<ref name="Inupiaq" />