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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.
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 ...
In Canada, according to ITK, it encompasses Inuvialuktun, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, and Inuttut. [1] The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) indicates that in Canada Inuktut includes Inuvialuktun, Inuinnaqtun, and Inuktitut. [3] The Government of Nunavut says that Inuktut encompasses the Inuit languages of Nunavut.
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 ...
This usage is often seen in linguistics literature describing Inuktitut, and sometimes in pedagogic literature and dictionaries, but remains a quite foreign vocabulary to most Inuit. The Inuktitut language also uses the ergative and the accusative cases in different forms: the ergative also appears as a genitive, marking the possessor of a noun.
Inuktitut has more consonants than Cree, fifteen in its standardised form. As Inuktitut has no /ts/, the c series has been reassigned to the value g (/ɡ ~ ɣ/). The y series is used for either y-or j-, since the difference is one of dialect; similarly with the s series, which stands for either s-or h-, depending on the dialect.
As Inuktitut was the language of the Eastern Canadian Inuit [80] and Kalaallisut is the language of the Western Greenlandic Inuit, [81] they are related more closely than most other dialects. [89] Inuit in Alaska and Northern Canada also typically speak English. [90] In Greenland, Inuit also speak Danish and learn English in school. Inuit in ...
Inuinnaqtun is also official alongside Inuktitut in Nunavut. [10] The Inuvialuktun dialects are seriously endangered, [11] as English has in recent years become the common language of the community. Surveys of Inuktitut usage in the NWT vary, but all agree that usage is not vigorous.