Inuktun
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Inuktun (, , ) is the language of approximately 1,000 Indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Inuktun
- Language.altname
- Polar Inuit
- Language.states
- GreenlandKingdom of Denmark
- Language.region
- Avanersuaq
- Language.ethnicity
- Inughuit
- Language.speakers
- 800–1,000
- Language.date
- 1995
- Language.familycolor
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Language.fam2
- Eskimo
- Language.fam3
- Inuit
- Language.fam4
- (variously classified as Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun or Inuinnaqtun)
- Language.ancestor
- Proto-Eskimo–Aleut
- Language.ancestor2
- Proto-Eskimo
- Language.ancestor3
- Proto-Inuit
- Language.nation
- Greenland
- Language.glotto
- pola1254
- Language.glottoname
- Polar Eskimo
- Language.map
- Inuktitut dialect map.svg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dialect
- Subclass of
- Greenlandic
- Country
- Greenland
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- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Latin script
- dialect of
- Greenlandic
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Geographic distribution
- Classification
- History
- Current situation
- Phonology and orthography
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Comparison with West Greenlandic
- Notes
- References
- External links
Inuktun (, , ) is the language of approximately 1,000 Indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland.
==Geographic distribution== Apart from the town of Qaanaaq, Inuktun is also spoken in the villages of (Inuktun names in brackets) Moriusaq (Muriuhaq), Siorapaluk (Hiurapaluk), Qeqertat (Qikiqtat), Qeqertarsuaq (Qikiqtarhuaq), and Savissivik (Havighivik).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Inuktun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.