Langenesis

Eskimo-Aleut family

Proto-Inuit

c. 1000 CE – 1300 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Inuit (c. 1000 CE – 1300 CE) is a reconstructed Eskimo-Aleut language. It has 3 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Eskimo-Aleut → Proto-Eskimo → Proto-Inuit.

See Proto-Inuit on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Inuit dialect continuum. It is associated with the Thule expansion from northern Alaska across Arctic Canada to Greenland around 1000-1300 CE.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Eskimo-Aleutc. 4,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Eskimoc. 500 BCE – 800 CE
  3. Proto-Inuitc. 1000 CE – 1300 CE

Descendants 3

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Eskimo.

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