The North Baffin dialect (Qikiqtaaluk uannangani or Iglulingmiut) of Inuktitut is spoken on the northern part of Baffin Island, at Igloolik and the adjacent...
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Inuktitut (redirect from South Baffin dialect)
distinguish an East Baffin dialect from either South Baffin or North Baffin, which is an Inuvialuk dialect. As of the early 2000s, Nunavut has gradually implemented...
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word may be used in different dialects. In the Kivalliq dialect, ilgaak (ᐃᓪᒑᒃ) is used, while the North Baffin dialect uses iggaak (ᐃᒡᒑᒃ). Both words...
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Inuit languages (category Indigenous languages of the North American Arctic)
It is reputed to be fairly close to the North Baffin dialect, since a group of migratory Inuit from Baffin Island settled in the area during the 19th...
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their way back if they can convince the ijiraq to let them go. In North Baffin dialects ijiraq means Shape Shifter. While Tariaksuq appear like a half-man-half-caribou...
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{not} {1SG NSP} Because it is snowing, I am not coming. (Inuktitut, North Baffin dialect) ex: takummat taku- to see -mmat 4 SG NSP taku- -mmat {to see} {4...
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Inughuit. During the mid-19th century, Inuit from Baffin visited and lived with the Inughuits. The Baffin Inuit reintroduced some technologies lost to the...
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Pauksztat, Birgit ed; Storrie, Robert ed (2005), "Amautiit", Arctic clothing of North America: Alaska, Canada, Greenland, China: C & C Offset Printing Co., Ltd...
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Inuktitut dialects of north Baffin Island and central Nunavut. The morphology and syntax of Inuit language varies to some degree between dialects, but the...
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changes the traditional morphology of the language, pushing the original dialect towards language death, especially since the majority of speakers are older...
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Inuvialuktun (category Indigenous languages of the North American Arctic)
west, the dialects are: Iglulingmiut or North Baffin, spoken on western Baffin Island (contrast South Baffin dialect.) Aivilingmiutut or Aivilik on the northern...
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of the first consonant in the pair: In the Aivilik dialect, North and South Baffin, and all dialects spoken further south and east, all double consonants...
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the larger Baffin Bay, which to the north edges into the island of Greenland in the form of Melville Bay. The coastline of northeastern Baffin Bay is dotted...
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that of Labrador Sea, which to the north narrows down to form Davis Strait separating the island of Greenland from Baffin Island. In the southwest, Ikka Fjord...
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West Greenlandic (redirect from Kalaallisut dialect)
Inuit1 Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktitut North Baffin Inuttitut Inuktun Inuvialuktun Siglitun Aivilik Inuinnaqtun Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik...
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Tunumiisut (redirect from Tunumiit dialect)
language of the Tunumiit in East Greenland. It is generally categorised as a dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language. The largest town...
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Inuttitut (redirect from Nunatsiavummiutut dialect)
Inuttitut, Inuttut, or Nunatsiavummiutitut is a dialect of Inuktitut. It is spoken across northern Labrador by the Inuit, whose traditional lands are...
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(ᒪᒃᑖᖅ), Siglitun, Kivalliq, Aivilik, North Baffin, East Baffin, South Baffin Maktak (ᒪᒃᑕᒃ), Inupiat, Siglitun, North Baffin Maktaq, Inuinnaqtun, Natsilingmiutut...
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Kangiryuarmiutun (redirect from Kangiryuarmiutun dialect)
Kangirjuarmiut(un)), is a dialect of Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by the Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit group. The dialect is part...
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to decide where to draw the lines of dialects. Labrador and East Arctic/Baffin Inuit are both the same dialect according to Ethnologue, but both have...
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traffic. Communities of Qeqertalik encircle Disko Bay, an inlet of the larger Baffin Bay, while the northeastern shores and Nuussuaq Peninsula belong to the...
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Aivilingmiutut (redirect from Aivilingmiutut dialect)
form a dialect continuum with few sharp boundaries. Goddard (1996) The Classification of the Native Languages of North America, Handbook of North American...
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the larger Baffin Bay, which to the north edges into the island of Greenland in the form of Melville Bay. The coastline of northeastern Baffin Bay is dotted...
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Iñupiaq language (redirect from Qawiaraq dialect)
major varieties of the Iñupiaq language are the North Slope Iñupiaq and Seward Peninsula Iñupiaq dialects. The Iñupiaq language has been in decline since...
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Boas's original fieldwork amongst the Inuit, at the time known as Eskimo, of Baffin Island. Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to...
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The Chaplino dialect (also known as Chaplinski dialect, Chaplinski Yupik, Eskimo Uŋaziq and Chaplinski language) is a dialect of the Central Siberian Yupik...
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Eskaleut languages (category Articles containing North Alaskan Inupiatun-language text)
Nunavimmiutitut (Nunavik) Qikiqtaaluk nigiani (South Baffin) Qikiqtaaluk uannangani or Iglulingmiut (North Baffin) Aivilingmiutut (east-central Nunavut) Kivallirmiutut...
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Iqaluit (category Populated places in Baffin Island)
climate, influenced by the cold deep waters of the Labrador Current just off Baffin Island—this makes the city of Iqaluit cold, although it is well south of...
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Natsilingmiutut (redirect from Nattilik dialect)
postbase -miut 'inhabitants of'. There are three main dialect divisions of Natsilingmiutut dialect: Natsilik subdialect, or Natsilik/Netsilik proper Arviligjuaq...
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Aleut language (redirect from Atkan dialect)
the Eskimo–Aleut language family. The Aleut language consists of three dialects, including Unalaska (Eastern Aleut), Atka/Atkan (Atka Aleut), and Attu/Attuan...
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