They do not represent political or tribal units nor are they the units Native people have traditionally used to define themselves. Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance.

Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, ...

For example, a document labeled as being Iñupiaq, an indigenous language spoken in Northwestern Alaska and Canada, was actually written in Inuktitut, which follows a completely different alphabet ...