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Eskimoan

Variant of Eskimo

noun

  1. pl. Eskimos or Eskimo a member of a group of indigenous North American peoples thinly scattered in areas extending from Greenland across N Canada and Alaska through the NE tip of Asia
  2. any of the languages of the Eskimos, belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and including a continuum of dialects called Inupiaq in Alaska, Inuktitut in Canada, and Kalaallisut in Greenland, as well as the Yupik languages

adjective

of the Eskimos or their languages or cultures

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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