Language code: `ik`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ik

The table below provides technical details for the Inupiaq language, designated by the ik code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code	`ik`
Name	Official Inupiaq Native Iñupiaq
Family	Eskimo-Aleut
Text direction	Left-to-Right
Language varieties	Northern Alaskan IñupiaqSeward Peninsula Iñupiaq
Related languages	InuvialuktunInuktitutKalaallisut
Key facts	Member of the Inuit branch of the Eskimo–Aleut familyUses a Latin orthography featuring special letters such as ‘ġ’, ‘ḷ’, ‘ł’, ‘ñ’ and ‘ŋ’Polysynthetic and ergative-absolutive, allowing long verb complexes that encode subject, object and tense in one wordHas three basic vowels (i, a, u), each with a short and long form, yielding six phonemic vowelsVocabulary is particularly rich for sea-ice, weather and subsistence hunting concepts
Sample phrase	Kamai, qanuq itpich?
Character encodings	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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Inupiaq belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It is recognized for ceremonial purposes as one of Alaska's official languages and is written using the Latin script (Iñupiaq alphabet). It is estimated that there are about 2,000 to 3,000 speakers, mostly in Alaska.

Language presence globally

Speakers

United States

2K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Inupiaq speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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