Contact-induced lexical development in Yupik and Inuit languages

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Authors: Berge, Anna, Kaplan, Lawrence
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc. 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Lent; aleut; Études/Inuit/Studies; inuit; Yupik
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/013946ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/013946ar

Lexical change in Yupik and Inuit languages was relatively slow until the period of widespread cultural change brought about by contact with Europeans over the past few centuries, probably because there had been little earlier contact with other language families. The colonial period brought various...