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Inupiaq, n. (and a.)|ɪˈnʊpɪæk, ɪˈnjuːpɪæk|
Also Inupiat.
[Inupiaq Eskimo Iñupiaq, f. iñuk man, person + piaq real, genuine.]
1. (A member of) an Inuit people inhabiting areas of northern Alaska along the Arctic slope and inland. Also attrib. or as adj.
On the variation in use between Inupiaq and Inupiat in Eskimo and English see R. Tabbert 1989, in Names Mar. 79–82.
1972N.Y. Times 5 Nov. x. 3/1 There is no word for hotel in the language of the Inupiat Eskimos of northern Alaska. 1973Federal Suppl. (U.S.) CCCLXIX. 1362/2 Plaintiffs are..the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, and certain individual Inupiat Eskimos living in the region concerned. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline i. 8 Officially the Inupiat..had been limited to a take of three hundred bears a year. 1982N.Y. Times 27 Aug. a23/2 An Anchorage banker and a leader of the Inupiaq people. 1987Christian Science Monitor 8 Dec. 3/1 Only three miles separate Little Diomede Island, where he lives with about 175 other Inupiaq, from Soviet Diomede Island. 1990G. Snyder Practice of Wild iii. 56 The native people of northwest Alaska have been intent on clarifying their own value system in recent years. This effort is called the ‘Inupiaq spirit movement’—the revival of Inupiaq spirit. 1992USA Today 14 Apr. 10a/2 Inupiats and Athabaskans have different cultures and speak different languages.
2. The Inuit language spoken by the Inupiaq.
1975M. E. Krauss in Linguistics 15 May 40 The other branch of Eskimo is Iñupiak, spoken from Unalakleet in Norton Sound, Alaska, northwards, in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. 1979― in Campbell & Mithun Languages Native Amer. 824 The term Inupiaq (or Inuit) refers to the more or less unbroken chain of dialects stretching from Unalakleet on Norton Sound around Seward Peninsula north and east across the entire Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, to the coasts of Labrador and Greenland. 1982N.Y. Times 25 July i. 38/4 [It] will be a place where older Eskimos can pass on skills and speak only Inupiaq, the Kotzebue Eskimo language, to young people. 1985Sci. Amer. Nov. 166/2 A few of the largest structures may have corresponded to the modern Eskimo men's house, known in Inupiaq as qargi. 1987D. Crystal Cambr. Encycl. Lang. lii. 320/1 Eskimo is the main language, spoken in many dialects by around 90,000. Its two main branches—Yupik in Alaska and Siberia, Inupiaq (Inuit, or Inuktitut) elsewhere—are sometimes classified as separate languages. 1990G. Snyder Practice of Wild iii. 54 The Kobuk people, ‘Kuuvangmiut’ in Inupiaq, are still very much involved in the subsistence economy. |