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The Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk ; the real people [ 1 ] ) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They, like all other Inuit, are descendants of the Thule who migrated eastward from Alaska . [ 2 ]
Uummarmiutun (Inupiaq: [uːm.mɑʁ.mi.u.tun]), Uummaġmiutun or Canadian Iñupiaq is the variant of Iñupiaq (or Inuvialuktun) spoken by the Uummarmiut, part of the Inuvialuit, who live mainly in the communities of Inuvik and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The Uummarmiut or Uummaġmiut (Inupiaq: [uːm.mɑʁ.mi.ut], people of the green trees) is the name given to the Inuvialuit who live predominantly in the Mackenzie Delta communities of Aklavik and Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. Their language is known as Uummarmiutun, an Inupiaq dialect of the Alaskan branch of the Eskimo–Aleut languages.
According to the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre, only 10% of the roughly 4,000 Inuvialuit speak any form of Inuktitut, and only 4% use it at home. Statistics Canada's 2001 Census report is only slightly better, reporting 765 self-identified Inuktitut speakers out of a self-reported Inuvialuit population of 3,905. Considering the large ...
Inuit Nunangat (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t ˈ n u n æ ŋ æ t /; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ /inuit nunaŋat/; translated as "the place where Inuit live" [2]), formerly Inuit Nunaat, refers to the land, water, and ice of the homeland of Inuit in Canada.
Harper's Bible Dictionary: 1952 Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller The New Bible Dictionary: 1962 J. D. Douglas Second Edition 1982, Third Edition 1996 Dictionary of the Bible: 1965 John L. McKenzie, SJ [clarification needed] The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible: 1970 Henry Snyder Gehman LDS Bible Dictionary: 1979 Harper's Bible Dictionary ...
The first efforts to write Inuktitut came from Moravian missionaries in Greenland and Labrador in the mid-19th century using Latin script. The first book printed in Inuktitut using Cree script was an 8-page pamphlet known as Selections from the Gospels in the dialect of the Inuit of Little Whale River (ᒋᓴᓯᑊ ᐅᑲᐤᓯᐣᑭᐟ, "Jesus' words"), [4] printed by John Horden in 1855–56 ...
Tuktoyaktuk is the anglicized form of the native Inuvialuit place-name, meaning "resembling a caribou". According to legend, a woman looked on as some caribou, common at the site, waded into the water and turned into stone. Today, reefs resembling petrified caribou are said to be visible at low tide along the shore of the town. [13]