Langenesis

Eskimo-Aleut family

Proto-Eskimo

c. 500 BCE – 800 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Eskimo (c. 500 BCE – 800 CE) is a reconstructed Eskimo-Aleut language. It has 5 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Eskimo-Aleut → Proto-Eskimo.

See Proto-Eskimo on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Yupik and Inuit branches, probably spoken in western Alaska. The dating is uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Eskimo-Aleutc. 4,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Eskimoc. 500 BCE – 800 CE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Eskimo-Aleut.

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