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The Northwest Territories [b] is a federal territory of Canada. ... There were also 630 responses of both English and a "non-official language"; 35 of both French and ...
The government of Nunavut recognises Inuinnaqtun as an official language in addition to Inuktitut, and together sometimes referred to as Inuktut. [2] [5] It is spoken in the Northwest Territories as well and is recognised as an official language of the territory in addition to Inuvialuktun and Inuktitut. [3]
The Northwest Territories Act of 1891 made English and French official languages in the rest of the Canadian West. But in 1892 the Legislature of the Northwest Territories declared itself English-only. This trend continued to the creation of the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, and beyond.
Its status is secured in the Northwest Territories Official Language Act. With the split of the territory into the NWT and Nunavut in 1999, both territories kept the Language Act. [5] The autonomous area Nunatsiavut in Labrador made Inuktitut the government language when it
Inuvialuktun, Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut constitute three of the eleven official languages of the Northwest Territories. [5] 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 ...
In the early 1980s, the government of Northwest Territories was again under pressure by the federal government to reintroduce French as an official language. Some native members walked out of the assembly, protesting that they would not be permitted to speak their own language.
According to Official Languages Act, its official languages are Inuit, English and French. [83] Northwest Territories have Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì as the official languages. [84] Ontario delivers services under the French Language ...
The Language Bureau was established in the early 1970s by the Government of the Northwest Territories. At its inception, the Language Bureau employed three permanent Inuit translator/interpreters and four temporary Dene translator/interpreters for nine elected members of Parliament.