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The Inuit languages, like other Eskimo–Aleut languages, have very rich morphological systems in which a succession of different morphemes are added to root words (like verb endings in European languages) to indicate things that, in languages like English, would require several words to express.
The missionaries of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches were the first ones to deliver formal education to Inuit in schools. The teachers used the Inuktitut language for instruction and developed writing systems. [9] In 1928 the first residential school for Inuit opened, and English became the language of instruction. As the government's ...
As Inuktitut was the language of the Eastern Canadian Inuit [80] and Kalaallisut is the language of the Western Greenlandic Inuit, [81] they are related more closely than most other dialects. [89] Inuit in Alaska and Northern Canada also typically speak English. [90] In Greenland, Inuit also speak Danish and learn English in school. Inuit in ...
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) says "Inuktut is the language of Inuit, spoken across Inuit Nunaat, which includes Greenland, Alaska and Inuit Nunangat in Northern Canada". [1] In Canada, according to ITK, it encompasses Inuvialuktun, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, and Inuttut. [1]
The Eskimoan languages are divided into two branches: the Yupik languages, spoken in western and southwestern Alaska and in Chukotka, and the Inuit languages, spoken in northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Inuit languages, which cover a huge range of territory, are divided into several varieties.
Considering the large number of non-Inuit living in Inuvialuit areas and the lack of a single common dialect among the already reduced number of speakers, the future of the Inuit language in the NWT appears bleak. From east to west, the dialects are: Iglulingmiut or North Baffin, spoken on western Baffin Island (contrast South Baffin dialect.)
Inuktun (English: Polar Inuit, Greenlandic: avanersuarmiutut, Danish: nordgrønlandsk, polarinuitisk, thulesproget) 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. [3]
Inuinnaqtun (Inuinnaqtun: ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ, IPA: [inuinːɑqtun]; natively meaning 'like the real human beings/peoples') is an Inuit language.It is spoken in the central Canadian Arctic.