ESKIMO-ALEUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eskimo-Aleut mean? 

• ESKIMO-ALEUT (noun)
  The noun ESKIMO-ALEUT has 1 sense:

1. the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut

  Familiarity information: ESKIMO-ALEUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESKIMO-ALEUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Eskimo-Aleut; Eskimo-Aleut language

Hypernyms ("Eskimo-Aleut" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Eskimo-Aleut"):

Eskimo; Esquimau (the language spoken by the Eskimo)

Aleut (the language spoken by the Aleut)