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| Source: | Michael E. Krauss (1997). The indigenous languages of the north: A report on their present state. Northern Minority Languages: Problems of Survival, ed. by Hiroshi Shoji & Juha Janhunen, 1-34. (Senri Ethological Studies 44.) Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology. |
| Language Family |
Language Name |
Population | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eskimo-Aleut | Aleut | 2000 | 255 |
| (Russia) | 200 | 5 | |
| Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) | 3000 | 350 | |
| Central Yup'ik | 21000 | 10000 | |
| Siberian Yupik | 1100 | 1000 | |
| (Russia) | 900 | 300 | |
| Inupiaq (Inuit) | 13500 | 3100 | |
| (Canada) | 30500 | 24500 | |
| (Greenland) | 47000 | 47000 | |
| Tsimshianic | Coast Tsimshian | 1300 | 70 |
| (Canada) | 3200 | <400 | |
| Nisga-Gitksan | <100 | <10 | |
| (Canada) | 5400 | <1000 | |
| Haida | Northern Haida | 600 | 15 |
| (Canada) | 1100 | 30 | |
| Athabascan- Eyak- Tlingit |
Tlingit | 10000 | 500 |
| (Canada) | 1000 | 75 | |
| Eyak | 1 | ||
| Ahtna | 500 | 80 | |
| Dena'ina | 900 | 75 | |
| Deg Xinag | 275 | 40 | |
| Holikachuk | 200 | 12 | |
| Koyukon | 2300 | 300 | |
| Upper Kuskokwim | 160 | 40 | |
| (Lower) Tanana | 380 | 30 | |
| Tanacross | 220 | 65 | |
| Upper Tanana | 340 | 115 | |
| Han | 50 | 12 | |
| (Canada) | 250 | 7 | |
| Gwich'in | 1100 | 300 | |
| (Canada) | 1900 | 400 |
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