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Inuktitut syllabics ( Inuktitut: ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ, romanized : qaniujaaqpait, [1] or ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ, titirausiq nutaaq) is an abugida -type writing system used in Canada by the Inuktitut -speaking Inuit of the territory of Nunavut and the Nunavik and Nunatsiavut regions of Quebec and Labrador, respectively. In 1976, the ...
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- Inuktitut
- Canadian Aboriginal
Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines. The Inuktitut syllabary consists of a small number of basic signs, the vowel sound attached to each one depends on their orientation. Used to write: Inuktitut. Download a script chart for Inuktitut (Excel) Hear how to pronunce Inuktitut:
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Syllabics (qaniujaaqpait) The syllabic writing system is made up of characters that, for the most part, represent a consonant sound followed by a vowel sound. Inuktitut has 14 consonants, each represented by a particular syllabic character. That character is then rotated clockwise or reversed to represent Inuktitut’s three vowel sounds, i, u ...
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. Inuktitut uses a writing system called syllabics, created originally for the Cree language , which ...
The first trick to learning syllabics is to understand that when we use the roman alphabet to write English and French, each letter represents an individual sound. The difference with syllabics is that each character represents an entire syllable - normally a consonant followed by a vowel. Inuktitut has 14 consonants, each represented by a ...
Oct 10, 2006 · The cluster /jj/ is tyically written ᑦᔭ. Several dialects have a glottal stop. This is either omitted in syllabic writing, or indicated by an apostrophe ’. Occasionally on syllabic charts, the Roman for /ł/ is written with the ampersand 〈&〉. This sound is pronounced like Dene 〈ł〉 or Welsh 〈ll〉 (IPA [ɬ]). /j/ is typically ...
The first written form of Inuktitut in what is now Canada was soon introduced, following the writing system that was similar to that used in Greenland, using roman orthography. Anglican, Roman Catholic and other proselytizing missionaries introduced other writing systems in other regions, based on both roman and syllabic scripts.
