Kauweramiutun

=Introduction=

Kauweramiutun, or commonly known as Qawiaraq Iñupiatun, is a dialect of Iñupiatun spoken in the Southern shores of Seward Peninsula and adjacent regions in Alaska, as well as one of seventeen core sub-languages spoken by Inuit across the Arctic. It is part of the Seward Peninsula Dialect with neighboring Kinugumiutun with very similar linguistic features.

=History=

Kauweramiutun is one of the oldest dialects and sublanguages of Inuit. It was first formed around 1,000 to 800 years ago, differentiating from Kinugumiutun. Distinctively from other languages, Kauweramiutun is the only Inuit language that was formed in the Southern Migration of the Bering Strait, which Inuit migrated following the southern shores of Bering Sea after crossing the Bering Strait, which was shortenly challenged by the Yup'ik inhabitants to the south.

Kauweramiutun, due to its proximate location to Yup'ik territories, was heavily influenced by the Yup'ik languages prior to the European arrivals. Since the arrival of the Europeans, different from other Inuit languages, thanks to its southern location, was under the heavy immigration of the European settlers, especially after the Yukon Gold Rush, where massive flows of population headed to Nome. Eventually, Kauweramiutun lost many of its linguistic features and speakers compared to other Inuit languages of Alaska, which leads to this day.

=Dialects=

Kinugumiutun is further subdivided into two subdialects: Teller, and Fish River

Teller Subdialect is the dialect spoken west of the Nome primarily like Teller, and far south in Shaktooklik. Due to its location, it was subjected to many linguistic exchanges with ties from Kinugumiutun, Yup'ik languages, and Russian and English in more modern eras.

Fish River Subdialect is spoken in the settlements east of Nome, such as Golovin and White Mountain. The dialect was formed due to the settlement's close relationships with settlements with Teller Subdialects like Teller, Marys Igloo (Qawiaraq), and Shaktooklik. In addition, as the Malimiut spread out from the north, the subdialect was also influeced by Malimiutun dialects.

=Ethnic Groups= Of around 120 ethnic subgroups of Inuit, three subgroups in the Seward Peninsula traditionally spoke Kauweramiutun: Sinigagmiut (Teller), Qawiaragmiut (Marys Igloo/Nome), Igaluingmiut (Golovin/White Mountain)

=Orthography= Though with distinctions and differences within subdialects, Kinugumiutun uses Latin Alphabets primarily with distinctions.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" ! A a || B b || Ch ch || G g || Ġ ġ || H h || I i || K k || L l || Ł ł || M m || N n || Ŋ ŋ ! P p || Q q || R r || S s || Sr sr || T t || U u || V v || W w || Y y || Z z || Zr zr || '
 * + Kaweramiutun Alphabet