| 单词 |
Inupik |
| 释义 |
Inupik, n. (and a.)|ɪˈnʊpɪk|
[Coined by Swadesh (see Yupik a. and n., quot. 19511); cf. *Inupiaq n. (and a.).]
The language of the Inuit, a major division of the Eskimo-Aleut family, comprising numerous dialects spoken in areas ranging from north-western Alaska eastwards throughout the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. Also attrib. or as adj.
1951M. Swadesh in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics Apr. 70/2 The dichotomy between Yupik and Inupik is clear and geographically abrupt. 1962Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics VII. 96 The Inupik dialects are believed to share a phonemic, grammatical, and lexical common core large enough to make mutual understanding feasible in everyday conversation. 1979M. E. Krauss in Campbell & Mithun Languages Native Amer. 891 The term Inupik is a false coinage by Swadesh, with the Inupiaq stem but Yupik suffix for ‘genuine’, -piaq (never -pik) in Inupiaq. 1989Encycl. Brit. XXII. 779/1 Voiced and voiceless varieties of the continuant consonants r, g, l, and v are distinctive sounds in western dialects but in eastern Inupik they are only variants. |
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