Indigenous Languages of the Arctic Circle

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[Source: Arctic Council Indigenous People’s Secretariat]

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About the map
The Arctic Indigenous languages map broadly demonstrates Arctic Indigenous languages spoken by members of the Arctic Council Permanent Participant organizations (Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, 2019). The borders between the language families and locations are illustrative and not entirely precise. Most languages are written in English and not in their traditional orthographies. Different dialects are marked in italics to demonstrate diversity within languages.

Resources
Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (CAFF, 2013); GRID-Arendal (GRID-Arendal/UN Environment, 2019), W.K. Dallmann (Norwegian Polar Institute, 2012), experts from the Arctic Council Permanent Participant organizations. The language classification for Haida is based on Schoonmaker et al., 1997, for Yukagir on advice from the Institute for the Peoples of the North, 2019.

About Arctic Indigenous languages
Between forty and ninety Indigenous languages are spoken in the Arctic, depending on the methods used to classify languages and dialects. Although many Arctic Indigenous languages are threatened, there is a growing movement among Indigenous Peoples to establish initiatives that revitalize their languages. The North is inhabited by an array of peoples with different cultures and language groupings.

For this report, information was compiled on 89 northern languages which accounts for a little more than 1% of the worlds living languages. These can be grouped into six distinct language families plus three isolated languages presently unconnected to any other language grouping. [Source]

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