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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.
Sep 22, 2023 · Inuktun (Avanersuarmiutut) Inuktun is a member of the Inuit branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It is spoken in by about 800 people in the north of Avannaata municipality in the northwest of Greenland, particularly in the town of Qaanaaq and the nearby villages of Moriusaq, Siorapaluk, Qeqertat, Qeqertarsuaq and Savissivik.
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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. Quick Facts Native to, Region ... Close.
Inuktitut (/ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k t ə t ʊ t / ih-NUUK-tə-tuut; Inuktitut: [inuktiˈtut], syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from inuk, 'person' + -titut, 'like', 'in the manner of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.
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Oct 2, 2010 · The Observer Arctic. This article is more than 13 years old. The disappearing world of the last of the Arctic hunters. In the first of a series of dispatches, Stephen Pax Leonard reports on the...
Dec 13, 2016 · Inuktitut is an Indigenous language in North America, spoken in the Canadian Arctic. The 2021 census reported 40,320 people have knowledge of Inuktitut. Inuktitut is part of a larger Inuit language family, stretching from Alaska to Greenland.
