• Western Canadian Inuit/Inuktitut/Inuktut/Inuktun) comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by Canadian...
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    the manner 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...
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    titirausiq nutaaq) is an abugida-type writing system used in Canada by the Inuktitut-speaking Inuit of the territory of Nunavut and the Nunavik and...
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    Strait Inupiatun. In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that...
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    syllabics. Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of Indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian...
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    language with about 57,000 speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut....
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    Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Sahtúgot’įné Yatı̨́ / Shíhgot’įne Yatı̨́ / K’ashógot’įne Goxedǝ́, and Tłįchǫ Yatıì). Canada's official languages commissioner...
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    distinct languages and dialects. Several Indigenous languages have official status in the Northwest Territories. Inuktitut is the majority language in Nunavut...
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    the Yupik languages, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska and in Chukotka, and the Inuit languages, spoken in northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland...
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  • Canadian French (French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãsɛ kanadzjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties...
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    beings/peoples'), is an Inuit language. It is spoken in the central Canadian Arctic. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and some scholars, such as...
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    Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the...
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    part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Iñupiat language is a member of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family, and is closely related and, to...
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  • 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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  • "Aboriginal Language Initiative - O' Kanata". Archived from the original on November 10, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2022. "O Canada in Inuktitut, French...
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    official languages in all three territories. In addition, Inuktitut is also an official language in Nunavut, and nine aboriginal languages have official...
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    communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and...
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    Calloway, Colin Gordon. Speaking Canadian English: an informal account of the English language in Canada. Orkin, Mark M. Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation...
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  • Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi...
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    Iqaluit (category Articles containing Inuktitut-language text)
    (/iˈkæluɪt/ ee-KAL-oo-it; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ, [iqaluit], lit. 'place of many fish'; French: [i.ka.lu.it]) is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut...
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    Inuit Nunangat (category Articles containing Inuktitut-language text)
    other symbols instead of syllabics. Inuit Nunangat (/ˈɪnjuɪtˈnunæŋæt/; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ /inuit nunaŋat/; translated as "the place where Inuit...
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    Eskimo (category Hunter-gatherers of Canada)
    Canada. In Canada's Central Arctic, Inuinnaq is the preferred term, and in the eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit. The language is often called Inuktitut,...
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    Quebec (redirect from Languages of Quebec)
    the Inuit–Aleut language family (Nunavimmiutitut, an Inuktitut dialect spoken by the Inuit of Nord-du-Québec), and the Iroquoian language family (Mohawk...
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    Kakiniit (category CS1 Inuktitut-language sources (iu))
    in Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuktitut). The Proto-Inuit word *tupə(nəq) 'tattoo' is the etymology of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut tunniq 'woman's facial...
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  • Igloo (definition) from Inuktitut iglu (ᐃᒡᓗ Inuktitut pronunciation: [iɣˈlu]) Ilanaaq (definition) Inuktitut ilanaaq (ᐃᓚᓈᒃ Inuktitut pronunciation: [ilanaːk])...
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    (Eastern: Alənαpαtəwéwαkan, Western: Alnôbaôdwawôgan), also known as Wôbanakiak, is an endangered Eastern Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern...
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    Mary Simon (category CS1 Inuktitut-language sources (iu))
    May Simon CC CMM COM OQ CD (in Inuktitut syllabics: ᒥᐊᓕ ᓴᐃᒪᓐ; Inuktitut: Ningiukudluk; born August 21, 1947) is a Canadian civil servant, diplomat, and...
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  • variety of Canadian English is Standard Canadian English, spoken in all the western and central provinces of Canada (varying little from Central Canada to British...
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    spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family. Extensive effort is being put into revitalization...
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    Inuit (redirect from Inuit in Canada)
    Tunumiit (Eastern). As Inuktitut was the language of the Eastern Canadian Inuit and Kalaallisut is the language of the Western Greenlandic Inuit, they...
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