Inuinnaqtun is a member of the Inuit branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It is spoken by about 1,300 people in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in northern Canada. In particular, it is spoken in the communities of Cambridge Bay and Kugulktuk on Victoria Island, and in Gjoa Haven on King William Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, and also in Ulukhaktok on the west coast of Victoria Island in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories.
Inuinnaqtun is also called Inuktut or Inuktut Tusaalanga, and the variety of Inuinnaqtun spoken in Gjoa Haven is known as Kangiryuarmiutun. The name Inuinnaqtun means "like the real human beings / people". Inuinnaqtun is closely related to Inuktitut and is considered a dialect of Inuktitut by some scholars. However, the government of Nunavut recognises Inuinnaqtun as an official language, and it also has official recognition in the Northwest Territories.
Most Inuinnaqtun-speakers write their language using Roman Orthography (Qaliujaaqpait), i.e. the Latin script. However in Gjoa Haven, it is written with Inuit Syllabics (Qaniujaaqpait).
Long vowels are indicated with a dot, e.g. ᐄ (ii) ᐴ (puu), ᑖ (taa).
Download alphabet charts for Inuinnaqtun (Excel)
Source: https://www.tusaalanga.ca/lesson/1/dialogue
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Information about the Inuinnaqtun language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuinnaqtun
https://www.tusaalanga.ca/about-Inuktut
https://tusaalanga.ca/node/2506
Blackfoot, Carrier, Chipewyan, Cree (East), Cree (Moose), Cree (Plains), Cree (Swampy), Cree (Woods), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Ojibwe, Oji-Cree
Aleut, Alutiiq, Greenlandic, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuktun, Iñupiaq, Sirenik, Yup'ik (Central Alaskan), Yupik (Central Siberian)
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 21.09.23. Last modified: 01.09.25
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