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    Inuktun (English: Polar Inuit, Greenlandic: avanersuarmiutut, Danish: nordgrønlandsk, polarinuitisk, thulesproget) is the language of approximately 1...
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  • Inuvialuktun (part of Western Canadian Inuit / Inuktitut / Inuktut / Inuktun) comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest...
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    oraasiat ("East Greenlandic") the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun ("Polar Inuit") Historically, Kalaallit referred specifically to the people...
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    southwestern part of Greenland, i.e. the region around Nuuk. Tunumiisut and Inuktun are the two other native languages of Greenland, spoken by a small minority...
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  • oraasiat ("East Greenlandic"); and the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun. The word Eskimo is a racially charged term in Canada. In Canada's Central...
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    Greenlandic. The language of the Inughuit (Thule Inuit) of Greenland, Inuktun or Polar Eskimo, is a recent arrival and a dialect of Inuktitut. Greenlandic...
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    States Air Force base in 1953. The inhabitants of Qaanaaq speak the local Inuktun language and many also speak Kalaallisut and Danish. Qaanaaq is one of...
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    Inughuit make up about 1% of the population of Greenland. The Inughuit speak Inuktun, also known as North Greenlandic, Thule Inuit, or Polar Eskimo. It is a...
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    as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers). The remainder of the population mainly...
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    Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord). It has a population of 43 who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic...
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    as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers). The remainder of the population mainly...
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    spoken in the towns and settlements of the western and northwestern coasts. Inuktun is also spoken in and around Qaanaaq. KANUKOKA Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    iñuit / iñuich Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuktun) inuk innuk inuit Inuktitut (Eastern Canadian Inuktun) inuk (ᐃᓄᒃ) inuuk (ᐃᓅᒃ) inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ) Greenlandic...
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    sometimes called Inuvialuktun and have in the past sometimes been called Inuktun. In those dialects, the name is sometimes rendered as Inuktitun to reflect...
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    Greenlandic (Tunumiisut) and nearly 1,000 around northern Qaanaaq speak Inuktun. North Greenlandic is closer to the Inuit languages of Canada than it is...
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    elderly speakers. Though often thought to be a dialect of Greenlandic, Inuktun or Polar Eskimo is a recent arrival in Greenland from the Eastern Canadian...
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  • language spoken by the people of Greenland Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) Inuktun (North Greenlandic) Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Historically, anything...
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    Nord. In 1818, Sir John Ross's expedition made first contact with nomadic Inuktun in the area. James Saunders's expedition aboard HMS North Star was marooned...
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    The Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallisut: kalaallit, Tunumiisut: tunumiit, Inuktun: inughuit) are the Indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland...
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  • Savissivik (West Greenlandic; old spelling: Savigsivik) or Havighivik (Inuktun) (IATA: SVR) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northern...
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    Arnaa ('Mother of the Deep') in West Greenlandic and Nerrivik ('Table', Inuktun) or Nuliajuk (District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories, Canada). She...
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    Qalaherriaq (Inuktun pronunciation: [qalahəχːiɑq], c. 1834 – June 14, 1856), baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuit hunter from Cape...
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  • in Arctic and native North American languages, including Kalaallisut, Inuktun, Chukchi and Nitinaht. Fortescue is known for his reconstructions of the...
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    Technological development on Nanaimo has been growing with companies such as "Inuktun" and the establishment of government-funded Innovation Island as a site...
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    Greenland. The Greenlandic languages are divided into: Kalaallisut (Western), Inuktun (Northern), and Tunumiit (Eastern). As Inuktitut was the language of the...
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    Inuit1 Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktitut North Baffin Inuttitut Inuktun Inuvialuktun Siglitun Aivilik Inuinnaqtun Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik...
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  • Inuit1 Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktitut North Baffin Inuttitut Inuktun Inuvialuktun Siglitun Aivilik Inuinnaqtun Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik...
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  • eight cases, but the word "piblokto" / "pibloktoq" does not exist within Inuktun (the Inughuit language); possibly, Dick concluded, this may have been the...
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    Aivilingmiutut (east-central Nunavut) Kivallirmiutut (Southeast Nunavut) Inuktun or Avanersuaq (Polar Eskimo, Greenland, 800 speakers) Greenlandic (Greenland:...
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    Inuit1 Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktitut North Baffin Inuttitut Inuktun Inuvialuktun Siglitun Aivilik Inuinnaqtun Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik...
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