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Inuktitut (/ ɪˈnʊktətʊt / ih-NUUK-tə-tuut; [3] Inuktitut: [inuktiˈtut], syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from inuk, 'person' + -titut, 'like', 'in the manner of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.
Inuktitut is an Inuit language spoken mainly in northern Canada, specifically in parts of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. According to the 2011 census, there are 34,000 speakers of Inukutitut, which is also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut.
Inuktitut is an Indigenous language in North America, spoken in the Canadian Arctic. The 2021 census reported 40,320 people have knowledge of Inuktitut. Inuktitut is part of a larger Inuit language family, stretching from Alaska to Greenland.
Inuktitut syllabics (Inuktitut: ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ, romanized: qaniujaaqpait, [2] or ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ, titirausiq nutaaq) is an abugida-type writing system used in Canada by the Inuktitut-speaking Inuit of the territory of Nunavut and the Nunavik and Nunatsiavut regions of Quebec and Labrador, respectively.
Inuktitut is one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in Canada and there are many resources available to learn more. Listen to pronunciations for the words and phrases shared in this guide, and try out more of the lessons in the dialect of your choice on the Inuktut Tusaalanga website.
Online, anytime and free. Tusaalanga means, ‘Let me hear!’ and features thousands of soundfiles to help you learn Inuktitut quickly and easily. Travelling in Nunavut? Check out the simple words and expressions that you can use in each community. CLICK HERE.
Inuktitut is a member of the Eskimo-Aleut language family which is spoken across the entire northern span of North America, forming what is called a linguistic chain--each Inuktitut dialect is easily mutually intelligible with its neighbors, but not with dialects further away.
Inuktitut is what linguists call a polysynthetic language, with subjects, objects and the like being expressed through long chains of suffixes (or “chunks”, as Mick and Kublu refer to them) to a root. Most Inuktitut utterances consist of such words.
Inuktitut is the traditional oral language of Inuit in the Arctic. Spoken in Canada and Greenland, as well as in Alaska, Inuktitut and its many dialects are used by peoples from region to region, with some variations.
Inuktut Uqausiliurut is part of a series of publications produced by Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit that provides an overview of Inuktut grammar. . how words function. A challenge in creating dictionaries for Inuktut is that most words can be expanded and changed by adding one or several affixes in order to produce a wide range o.