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ESKIMO-ALEUT LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
Synonyms:
Eskimo-Aleut; Eskimo-Aleut language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Eskimo-Aleut language" 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 language"):
Eskimo; Esquimau (the language spoken by the Eskimo)
Aleut (the language spoken by the Aleut)