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In Inuit religion, Nanook (/ ˈ n æ n uː k /; Inuktitut: ᓇᓄᖅ [1], [2] lit. "polar bear") was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters deserved success in finding and hunting bears and punished violations of taboos. [3] The word was popularized by Nanook of the North, the first feature-length documentary. [citation needed]
The Inuit languages are a fairly closely linked set of languages which can be broken up using a number of different criteria. Traditionally, Inuit describe dialect differences by means of place names to describe local idiosyncrasies in language: The dialect of Igloolik versus the dialect of Iqaluit, for example. However, political and ...
Nanuq is a big polar bear who know what it means to be a good friend. Nanuq likes to stay active by playing hockey and often has to find creative ways to cheer up his little brother Nuka. He and Nuka appear in the segments "Nanuq and Nuka". Nuka is a little polar bear with a grumpy exterior but, deep down, he just wants to have fun with his ...
Inuit were supposed to use English at school, work, and even on the playground. [10] Inuit themselves viewed Inuktitut as the way to express their feelings and be linked to their identity, while English was a tool for making money. [8] In the 1960s, the European attitude towards the Inuktitut language started to change.
The Eskaleut (/ ɛ ˈ s k æ l i uː t / e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan [1] languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
The first efforts to write Inuktitut came from Moravian missionaries in Greenland and Labrador in the mid-19th century using Latin script. The first book printed in Inuktitut using Cree script was an 8-page pamphlet known as Selections from the Gospels in the dialect of the Inuit of Little Whale River (ᒋᓴᓯᑊ ᐅᑲᐤᓯᐣᑭᐟ, "Jesus' words"), [4] printed by John Horden in 1855–56 ...
Another version calls the brother aninga and the sister aleqa (meaning "older sister of a younger brother"). [10] Bernard Saladin D'Anglure gives the etymology that Aningaat/Aningaq means "favorite brother", from ani ("brother" when a male is addressed by his sister) and one of several synonymous suffixes -ngaq, -ngaat, -ngaaq ("favorite").
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) says "Inuktut is the language of Inuit, spoken across Inuit Nunaat, which includes Greenland, Alaska and Inuit Nunangat in Northern Canada". [1] In Canada, according to ITK, it encompasses Inuvialuktun , Inuinnaqtun , Inuktitut , and Inuttut .