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Because the Inuit languages are spread over such a large area, divided between different nations and political units and originally reached by Europeans of different origins at different times, there is no uniform way of writing the Inuit language. Currently there are six "standard" ways to write the languages: ICI Standard Syllabics (Canada)
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 ...
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.
A Brief History of Inuktitut Writing Culture; Our Language, Our Selves Archived 2005-11-11 at the Wayback Machine; Alt.folklore.urban on Eskimo words for snow. Arctic Languages: An Awakening, ed: Dirmid R. F. Collis. ISBN 92-3-102661-5 Available in PDF via the UNESCO website (chapter with Inuit grammar).
Iñupiaq or Inupiaq (/ ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ k / ih-NOO-pee-ak, Inupiaq:), also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat (/ ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ t / ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These languages had no formal writing system previously.
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. [1]
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.