A western Inuit language, probably Inuvialuktun or Iñupiaq. It definitely doesn’t have the cluster assimilations typical of eastern Inuktitut, and the retroflex I heard in a couple of places definitely doesn’t sound like anything I know of eastern varieties.
Is it perhaps Юпик?
The language is Iñupiaq (Inupiatun), an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in northern Alaska in the USA.
A language spoken by western Inuit, most likely Inuvialuktun or Iñupiaq. It most clearly lacks the eastern Inuktitut cluster assimilations, and the retroflex
A western Inuit language, probably Inuvialuktun or Iñupiaq. It definitely doesn’t have the cluster assimilations typical of eastern Inuktitut, and the retroflex I heard in a couple of places definitely doesn’t sound like anything I know of eastern varieties.
Is it perhaps Юпик?
The language is Iñupiaq (Inupiatun), an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in northern Alaska in the USA.
The recording comes from YouTube
A language spoken by western Inuit, most likely Inuvialuktun or Iñupiaq. It most clearly lacks the eastern Inuktitut cluster assimilations, and the retroflex