Inuktitut

See also: inuktitut

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot, “like the Inuit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʊktɪtʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Inuktitut

1. The language of the Inuit people.
   • 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 46:

     I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.

   • 2025, Marie-Ève Hudon, Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories‎^[1], Ottawa, Canada: Library of Parliament, page 30:

     In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.

Translations

language

• Arabic: إِنُكْتِيتُوتِيَّة f (ʔinuktītūtiyya)
• Bulgarian: инуктитут (inuktitut)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 因紐特語 / 因纽特语 (jan¹ nau⁵ dak⁶ jyu⁵)

  Mandarin: 因紐特語 / 因纽特语 (zh) (Yīnniǔtè yǔ)

• Czech: inuktitutština f
• Dutch: Inuktitut (nl) n
• Esperanto: inuktituto
• Finnish: inuktitut (fi)
• French: inuktitut (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Inûktitût n

• Georgian: ინუკტიტუტი (inuḳṭiṭuṭi)
• German: Inuktitut (de) n
• Greenlandic: Inuktitut (kl)
• Hebrew: אינוקטיטוט (inuktitut)
• Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (iu) (inoktitot)
• Irish: Ionúitis f
• Japanese: イヌクティトゥット語 (ja) (Inukutitutto-go)
• Korean: 이누이트어 (Inu'iteu-eo)
• Macedonian: инуктитут (inuktitut)
• Mapudungun: inuwit dungun
• Navajo: Náhookǫsjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad
• Persian: اینوکتیتوت (inuktitut)
• Polish: eskimoski (pl) m inan, inuktitut m inan
• Portuguese: inuktitut (pt) m
• Russian: инуктиту́т (ru) m (inuktitút)
• Slovak: inuktitut
• Spanish: inuktitut (es) m
• Tamil: இனுக்ரிருற் மொழி (iṉukriruṟ moḻi)
• Ukrainian: інуктитут (uk) (inuktytut)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Inuktitut terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code iu, ISO 639-3 code iku (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Inuktitut, iku ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

  Ethnologue entry for Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, ike ⁠

  Ethnologue entry for Western Canadian Inuktitut, ikt ⁠

Related languages:

• Ethnologue entry for Greenlandic Inuktitut, kal ⁠

Inuktitut

Alternative forms

• inuktitut, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot)

Etymology

Literally, “like the Inuit”.

Proper noun

Inuktitut (syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ)

1. Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit people) Latin spelling of ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot)