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This article discusses the phonology of the Inuit languages.Unless otherwise noted, statements refer to Inuktitut dialects of Canada.. Most Inuit varieties have fifteen consonants and three vowel qualities (with phonemic length distinctions for each).
Inuktitut (/ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k t ə t ʊ t / ih- ... Phonology. Eastern dialects of Inuktitut have fifteen consonants and three vowels (which can be long or short ...
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 ...
to hear -tsiaq- well -junnaq- be able to -nngit- not -tualuu- very much -junga 1SG. PRES. IND. NSP tusaa- -tsiaq- -junnaq- -nngit- -tualuu- -junga {to hear} well {be able to} not {very much} 1SG.PRES.IND. NSP I cannot hear very well. This sort of word construction is pervasive in the Inuit languages and makes them very unlike English. In one large Canadian corpus – the Nunavut Hansard – 92 ...
[1] Inuktitut uses a split-ergative structure, marking the subject of a non-specific verb and the object of a specific verb in the same way – the absence of a specific morphological marker – and marks the subject of a specific verb and the object of a non-specific verb with particular morphological elements.
English: Welcome to Tuktoyaktuk Siglitun: Aqana Tuktuuyaqtuumukkabsi Sallirmiutun (formerly Siglitun) [1] is the dialect of Inuvialuktun spoken by the Siglit, an Inuit group of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Inuttitut, [1] Inuttut, [2] or Nunatsiavummiutitut [3] is a dialect of Inuktitut. It is spoken across northern Labrador by the Inuit , whose traditional lands are known as Nunatsiavut . The language has a distinct writing system, created in Greenland in the 1760s by German missionaries from the Moravian Church .
Greenlandic phonology allows clusters of two consonants, but phonetically, the first consonant in a cluster is assimilated to the second one resulting in a geminate consonant. If the first consonant is /ʁ/ or /q/ , it nevertheless opens/retracts the preceding vowel, which in case of /i/ and /u/ is then written e and o .