language fluent population*

speakers*

Eskimo

Inuit

Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallisut) 46,000 46,400

Eastern Canadian Inuit (Inuktitut) 12,400 14,000

Western Canadian Inuit (Inuktitun) 4,000 7,300

North Alaskan Inuit (Inupiaq) 3,000 15,500

Yupik

Central Alaskan Yupik 10,000 22,000

Alutiiq Alaskan Yupik 450 2,900

Nankauski Siberian Yupik 50 400

Central Siberian Yupik

(in Russia) 300 900

(in Alaska, U.S.) 1,050 1,100

Aleut

Eastern Aleut 110 1,530

Atkan Aleut 45 75

Russian Aleut 10 300

*Statistics gathered 1990-95. Figures do not include residents of

urban centres--e.g., about 5,000 Greenlanders in Copenhagen, Denmark.