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Thus, the Inuktitut name of the hamlet of Baker Lake is pronounced Qamaniqtuaq or Qamanittuaq by most Inuktitut speakers, but is rendered Qamani'tuaq in Baker Lake itself. This phenomenon occurs in a number of dialects, but is particularly noticeable in Nunavimmiutut and in central Nunavut dialects like Kivallirmiutut .
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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 ...
This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
Arabic (Arabic script) Kurdish: Ireland: Dublin: Éire Ireland: Baile Átha Cliath Dublin: Irish English: Isle of Man [11] Douglas: Isle of Man or Mann Ellan Vannin or Mannin: Douglas Doolish: English Manx: Israel: Jerusalem (declared) [a] Yisra'el ישראל Israʼiyl إسرائيل: Yerushalayim ירושלים Al-Quds القُدس: Hebrew ...
to hear -tsiaq- well -junnaq- be able to -nngit- not -tualuu- very much -junga 1SG. PRES. IND. NSP tusaa- -tsiaq- -junnaq- -nngit- -tualuu- -junga {to hear} well {be able to} not {very much} 1SG.PRES.IND. NSP I cannot hear very well. This sort of word construction is pervasive in the Inuit languages and makes them very unlike English. In one large Canadian corpus – the Nunavut Hansard – 92 ...
The Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (an Israeli Basic Law which specifies the nature of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish People) states in No. 4 (B) that "The Arabic language has a special status in the state; Regulating the use of Arabic in state institutions or by them will be set in law.
Nunavut is the home of some 24,000 Inuit, over 80% of whom speak Inuktitut. This includes some 3,500 people reported as monolinguals. The 2001 census data shows that the use of Inuktitut, while lower among the young than the elderly, has stopped declining in Canada as a whole and may even be increasing in Nunavut.