• article discusses the phonology of the Inuit languages. Unless otherwise noted, statements refer to Inuktitut dialects of Canada. Most Inuit varieties have fifteen...
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    The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent...
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  • Proto-Eskimo, or Proto-Inuit-Yupik, is the reconstructed ancestor of the Eskimo languages. It was spoken by the ancestors of the Yupik and Inuit peoples. It is...
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    The Eskaleut (/ɛˈskæliuːt/ e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the...
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    The ai-pai-tai column is used only in Nunavik. Inuit phonology Inuktitut Braille "Writing the Inuit Language | Inuktut Tusaalanga". tusaalanga.ca. Retrieved...
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    closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern...
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  • intermixed these days. The phonology of Inuvialuktun and other Inuit languages can be found at Inuit phonology. Most Inuit languages have fifteen consonants...
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    Iñupiat, Inupiat (/ɪˈnuːpiæt/ i-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people...
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  • Proto-Inuit is the reconstructed proto-language of the Inuit languages, probably spoken about 1000 years BP by the Neo-Eskimo Thule people. It evolved...
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    of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the North American...
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  • -ju- and the first person marker -nga) Note the consonant sandhi (see Inuit phonology): The /q/ from -tsiaq- followed by the /j/ from -junnaq- becomes ‹r›...
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  • Proto-Eskaleut, Proto-Eskimo–Aleut or Proto-Inuit-Yupik-Unangan[citation needed] is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Eskaleut languages, family...
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    classification, the Yupik languages diverged from each other and from the Inuit languages around 1000 CE. Naukan Yupik (also Naukanski): spoken by perhaps...
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  • Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts...
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    Her work constitutes the most detailed accounts of Aleut phonetics and phonology available.[citation needed] Anna Berge conducts research on Aleut. Berge's...
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    West Greenlandic (category Inuit languages)
    of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people). It was historically...
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    act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." Inuit languages Inuit grammar Inuit phonology The CIA World Factbook has reported Greenlandic literacy...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other...
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    Inuktun (redirect from Polar Inuit language)
    language differs from Kalaallisut by some phonological, grammatical and lexical differences. The Polar Inuit were the last to cross from Canada into Greenland...
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    Inuttitut (category Inuit in Newfoundland and Labrador)
    Inuttut surface phonology". International journal of American linguistics 41 (2), 97-105. Dorais, Louis-Jacques (1981) Reviews Etudes/Inuit Studies 5 (1)...
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  • Greenlandic phonology distinguishes itself phonologically from the other Inuit languages by a series of assimilations. Greenlandic phonology allows clusters...
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    (1997), p. 14. van der Veen (2001), p. 102. Árnason, Kristján (2011), The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-922931-4...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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  • Yupik has a series of retroflex fricatives, more similar to the Alaskan Inuit dialects. Morphosyntax is the study of grammatical categories or linguistic...
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    Inuksuk (category Inuit culture)
    pronounced inutsuk in Nunavik and the southern part of Baffin Island (see Inuit phonology for the linguistic reasons). In many of the central Nunavut dialects...
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  • syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is...
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  • R.; Cox, F.; Harrington, J. (2009), An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology, Macquarie University Qafisheh, Hamdi A. (1977), A short reference grammar...
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    Tunumiisut (category Inuit languages)
    Eskaleut languages Ch. 4 Mennecier, Philippe (1995). Le tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental: description et analyse. Collection linguistique,...
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    Siglitun (section Phonology)
    (formerly Siglitun) is the dialect of Inuvialuktun spoken by the Siglit, an Inuit group of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is mainly used in the Inuvialuit...
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    the Inuit uvular nasal". Études Inuit Studies. 2 (1): 132–135. JSTOR 42870492. Bobaljik, Jonathan David (October 1996). "Assimilation in the Inuit Languages...
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