Eskimo vs. Aleut — What's the Difference?

Eskimo ( ESS-kih-moh) or Eskimos is a term used to refer to two closely related Indigenous peoples: The Inuit (including the Alaskan Iñupiat, the Greenlandic Inuit, and the Canadian Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, the Aleut, which inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the definition of Eskimo.

The Aleuts ( (listen) A-lee-OOT; Russian: Алеуты, romanized: Aleuty) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands. In the Aleut language they are known by the endonyms Unangan (eastern dialect) and Unangas (western dialect), both of which mean "people".Both the Aleut people and the islands are divided between the US state of Alaska and the Russian administrative division of Kamchatka Krai.

A member of any of a group of peoples inhabiting the Arctic coastal regions of North America and parts of Greenland and northeast Siberia. See Usage Note at Native American.

A member of an indigenous people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and coastal areas of southwest Alaska.

Any of the languages of the Eskimo peoples.

The Eskimo-Aleut language of the Aleut. See Usage Note at Native American.

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.

A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska

A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

The language spoken by the Aleut people

The language spoken by the Eskimo people