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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 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 ...
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Inuit Dialects in Nunavut; ... Writing the Inuit Language; Syllabics (qaniujaaqpait) ... Developed in collaboration with the Government of Nunavut. ...
Oct 7, 2019 · Doubled vowels mean a long sound as in spoon. A "K" is hard, as in key, but a "Q" requires a little drag in the back of the throat. ... The move is supported by other Inuit groups such as Nunavut ...
Writing the Inuit Language. Apart from their Siberian cousins, Inuit across the circumpolar world use two types of orthography to write their language. Roman orthography (or the Latin alphabet) is the only writing system used in Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Labrador and in Greenland. This is also the case in Nunavut’s Inuinnaqtun ...
Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait is a unified orthography: a common set of characters that can be used in to write any dialect of Inuktut, the Inuit language. The orthography is representative of all Inuktut sounds. This way speakers of any dialect from any region can write using Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait while still following the pronunciation that they use ...
History of Inuit Writing Systems. Inuktut was a spoken language across the Arctic for thousands of years before writing systems began to be used. The different writing systems Inuit use now were mostly introduced by European missionaries, but many Inuit learned to write from Inuit who were visiting from other regions and writing spread quickly.
