thern into southern Greenland. This subfamily is generally called
             Inupiaq in Alaska, but also Inuktitut in Canada and Kalaallisut in
             Greenland. It consists of many dialects, each understandable to speakers of
             neighboring dialects, although not to speakers of geographically distant
             dialects. The western branch, called Yupik, includes three distinct
             languages, Central Alaskan Yupik and Pacific Gulf Yupik in Alaska and
             Siberian Yupik in Alaska and Canada. Each of these has several dialects.
             The Inupiaq dialects have more than 40,000 speakers in Greenland and more
             than 20,000 in Alaska and Canada. About 17,000 people speak Yupik
             languages. In the former Soviet Union about 1,000 people spoke it.
             Explorers and traders do not learn these languages because they are
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