The language of Siberian Eskimos as recorded by Jan "Eskimo" Welzl

Abstract

In the present study the numerals of Siberian Eskimos recorded by Jan "Eskimo" Welzl are analyzed in context of the "Arctic" languages, wide-spread from Greenland to the archipelago Novaja Zemľa, concretely Eskaleutan, Chukcho-Koryak, Yukaghir, Yakutic, North Samoyedic & Selkup. The answer is unambiguously negative, i.e. there is no correlation with any of the studied numeral systems.