Inuktitut / Inuinnaqtun, Inupiatun
Spoken at	Nunavut , Nunavik , Labrador ( Canada ), Alaska ( USA ), formerly Diomede Islands ( Russia ).
Number of speakers	90 000
Typology	basic SOV order flexible
Classification by family
- Eskimo-Aleut languages - Eskimo languages - Inuit languages - Inuktitut
Official status
Official language of	Nunavut , Nunavik ( Canada )
Governed by	Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Language codes
ISO 639-1	iu
ISO 639-2	iku
ISO 639-3	iku
IETF	iu
Sample
"Nunavut" in Inuktitut: Article I of the Declaration of Human Rights in Greenland Inuktitut ( text in French ): Immikkoortoq 1. Inuit tamarmik inunngorput nammineersinnaassuseqarlutik assigiimmillu ataqqinassuseqarlutillu pisinnaatitaaffeqarlutik. Solaqassusermik tarnillu nalunngissusianik pilersugaapput, imminnullu iliorfigeqatigiittariaqaraluarput qatanngutigiittut peqatigiinnerup anersaavani.
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The Inuktitut ( Inuktitut syllabary : ) is one of four broad dialect of the language Inuit , the other three sets as the Inupiaq , spoken in Alaska , the Inuktun , spoken in northwestern Canada, and Greenland , spoken in Greenland.

Inuit-Inupiaq this group is in turn part of the Eskimo branch (which includes the Yupik and its varieties) family Eskimo-Aleut.

Summary 1 Geographic distribution 2 Writing 3 Dialects 4 First names Inuktitut 5 Notes 6 See also 6.1 Linkages internal 6.2 Bibliography 6.3 External Links

/ / Geographic distribution

Inuktitut is spoken by about 30,000 people in the Arctic eastern Canada , in Quebec (in Nunavik ), on the island of Baffin , and in Nunavut (where it has the status of official language) and is used in the bilingual road signs.

Writing

First oral tradition, this language has the distinction of having been transcribed from the ^twentieth century in a system of syllabic notation, unlike other languages which are usually oral tradition transcribed into Latin characters.

Missionaries from Europe influenced the peoples of the Arctic to adopt a writing system in order to introduce them to Christianity and the Bible. Today the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic either use the Roman spelling (qaliujaaqpait) or syllabic characters (qaniujaaqpait). The first writing system used among the Inuit was the Roman orthography, in Greenland during the 1760s.

It is an adaptation, in the 1880s, writing development for art by Reverend Evans in the late 1830s. This writing is not unique to the Inuktitut: it also notes other Indian languages, as Naskapi , but however it does not record all the Eskimo dialects: practically the use of this primer is limited to the Inuktitut. Kalaallisut The Western dialect largest with nearly 50,000 users and more firmly established, adopted a standardized spelling in Roman characters.

The Yupik and Inupiat of Alaska and the Yupik of Siberia were also using Roman orthography. For cons, the Netsilik of Pelly Bay and the island of Baffin adopted syllabic writing in the 1920s when they became the last northern peoples to meet the missionaries ^Dialects

In Canada, there are 8 dialects of Inuktitut:
Nunavut

1. Inuinnaqtun
2. Natsilingmiutut
3. Kivallirmiutut
4. Aivilingmiutut
5. Qikiqtaaluk uannangani (North Baffin)
6. Qikiqtaaluk nigiani (South Baffin)

Nunavik (Quebec)

1. Nunavimmiutitut

Nunatsiavut (Labrador)

1. Nunatsiavummiutut,

Name Inuktitut

The names are often rooted in the nature that surrounds them, in supernatural forces they perceive, in the qualities of persons, or other life events, often related to birth. Just as the names of the peoples of North American Indians whose etymology is similar.

Notes

See also

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