The Eskimo family, our exonym for Inuit, came from northeast Asia. A few correlations were noted between its Asiatic branch and Tungusic. In 2015 Alexander Vovin showed that the synopsis exists only in north Tungusic, never trickling to (say) Manchu.
I am no Manchulogist. I didn't even know this split in Tungus until "now". Apparently it goes back around to Christian Year Zero, about when Octavian became the august prince and when the Han empire hiccoughed. The Tungus homeland is the Amur.
Should Vovin's finding be true, means the Eskimo lived much further into Asia than hitherto understood. Sirenikskii would be a sub-branch there. Perhaps the north Tungus pushed them east.
Another blindside, more of interest to this blog: Uwe Seefloth "Die Entstehung polypersonaler Paradigmen im Uralo-Sibirischen" (2001), that Eskimo // Uralic.
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