Iñupiaq language
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Iñupiaq or Inupiaq, also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, a
Iñupiaq Dialects
Utqiagvik, Alaska
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Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow, is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located north of the Arctic Circle, it is one of the northernmost citi
Iñupiaq language
…Point Barrow dialect was "spoken only by a few elders" in 2010. A dialect of North Slope is also spoken in Kivalina, Point Lay, Wainwright, Atqasuk, Utqiaġvik, Nuiqsut, and Barter Island. All Iñupiaq dialects have three basic vowel qualities: . There is currently no instrumental work to determine what allophones…
Street view of Utqiagvik in 2008
English (Welcome to Barrow) and Iñupiaq (Paġlagivsigiñ Utqiaġvigmun) (2004)
The Ukpeakvik mounds are the site of ancient sod houses in Utqiagvik
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