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The words Inuktitut, or more correctly Inuktut ('Inuit language') are increasingly used to refer to both Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut together, or "Inuit languages" in English. [ 12 ] Nunavut is the home of some 24,000 Inuit, over 80% of whom speak Inuktitut.
P. POV (surname) Categories: Inuktitut-language names. Surnames by language. Surnames of Native American origin.
Syllabics are an abugida, where glyphs represent consonant–vowel pairs, determined by the rotation of the glyphs. They derive from the work of linguist and missionary James Evans. Canadian syllabics are currently used to write all of the Cree languages from including Eastern Cree, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, and Naskapi.
Inuktut is the collective name for the Inuit languages. [1] It is used by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Inuit Circumpolar Council, and the Government of Nunavut throughout Inuit Nunaat and Inuit Nunangat. [1][2][3][4][5]
Pages in category "Inuktitut-language names". The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Angakkuq. The Inuit angakkuq (plural: angakkuit, Inuktitut syllabics ᐊᖓᑦᑯᖅ or ᐊᖓᒃᑯᖅ; [1][2][3] Inuvialuktun: angatkuq; [4] Greenlandic: angakkoq, [5] pl. angakkut; [6] Iñupiaq: aŋatkuq) is an intellectual and spiritual figure in Inuit culture who corresponds to a medicine man. Other cultures, including Alaska Natives, have ...
The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent subarctic regions as far south as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska and ...
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 .