Language

Language ** In Alaska they speak English because it is an American state. The Americans bought the country from the Russians in 1867. Alaska has none official languages, but 89, 7% of the people speak English, 5, 9% speak Native North American and 2, 9% speak Spanish. Inupiaq is spoken in most of the northern Alaska, and it is close to Canadian Inuit dialects and the Greenlandic dialects. That may be called "Inuit" and the name ”Inupiaq” means ”real” or ”genuine person”. The thing that makes the English language so rich is that the English words come from different languages. In Alaska there are around 84, 7 % over the age of 5 speaks English at home.
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