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Inuit language dialect
Kangiryuarmiutun
Native toCanada
Language familyEskaleut
Early formsProto-Eskimo–Aleut
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist Listikt-hol
GlottologNone

Kangiryuarmiutun (sometimes Kangirjuarmiut(un)) is a dialect of Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by the Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit group. The dialect is part of the Inuvialuktun language. The people of Ulukhaktok prefer to think of it as Inuinnaqtun and it is essentially the same.

It is derived from Kangiryuak (meaning "the big bay"), and named for the people that lived there, the Kangiryuarmiut, which is known by its English name Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island. Victoria Island is the ancestral home of the Copper Inuit.

Vocabulary comparison

The comparison of some animal names in the Siglitun and Kangiryuarmiutun subdialects of the Inuinnaqtun dialect of Inuvialuktun:

Siglitun Kangiryuarmiutun Inuinnaqtun meaning
qugyuk kogyok qugjuk tundra swan
qilalugaq kilalogak qilalugaq beluga whale
tatidjgaq tatilgak tatilgaq sandhill crane
aqidjgiq nikhaktok aqilgivik willow ptarmigan
isun’ngaq enhongalhuk ihunngaq jaeger

See also

References

  1. Kudlak, Emily; Compton, Richard (2018). Kangiryuarmiut Inuinnaqtun: Uqauhiitaa Numiktitirutait Dictionary. Nunavut Arctic College Media. ISBN 978-1-897568-55-2.
  2. Olokhaktomiut Community Conservation Plan, July 2008 Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Inuinnaqtun to English, Nunavut Arctic College

External links

Eskaleut languages
Aleut
Eskimoan
Inuit
Yupik
See also
  • 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects
  • 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch


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