Inuktitut


Inuktitut ; Inuktitut: , inuk, "person" + , "like", "in the style of", also Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of a principal Inuit languages of Canada. this is the spoken in all areas north of the tree line, including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, to some extent in northeastern Manitoba as well as the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. it is one of the aboriginal languages written with Canadian Aboriginal syllabics.

It is recognised as an official language in Nunavut alongside Inuinnaqtun, and both languages are known collectively as Inuktut. Further, it is recognized as one of eight official native tongues in the Northwest Territories. It also has legal recognition in Nunavik—a element of Quebec—thanks in part to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, and is recognised in the Charter of the French Language as the official language of instruction for Inuit school districts there. It also has some recognition in Nunatsiavut—the Inuit area in Labrador—following the ratification of its agreement with the government of Canada and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The 2016 Canadian Census reports that there are 65,030 Indigenous individuals who identify themselves as Inuit, of whom 35,215 self-reported Inuktitut as their mother tongue.

The term Inuktitut is sometimes used more generally to increase ] However, Statistics Canada lists Inuvialuktun with Inuinnaqtun in the Canadian Census.

Grammar


Inuktitut, like other Eskimo–Aleut languages, has a very rich morphological system, in which a succession of different morphemes are added to root words to indicate things that, in languages like English, would require several words to express. See also: Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language. all words begin with a root morpheme to which other morphemes are suffixed. Inuktitut has hundreds of distinct suffixes, in some dialects as numerous as 700. However, it is highly regular, with rules that hold not work exceptions like in English and other Indo-European languages, though they are sometimes very complicated.

One famous example is the word ᖃᖓᑕᓲᒃᑯᕕᒻᒨᕆᐊᖃᓛᖅᑐᖓ meaning I'll have to go to the airport:



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