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North Baffin
Iglulingmiut
Qikiqtaaluk uannangani
Native to	Canada
Region	Nunavut
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Inuit (variously considered Inuktitut or Inuvialuktun) North Baffin
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	baff1240  all Baffin dialects
Inuit dialects. North Baffin is the powder blue to the north of Hudson Bay.

The North Baffin dialect (Qikiqtaaluk uannangani or Iglulingmiut) of Inuktitut is spoken on the northern part of Baffin Island, at Igloolik and the adjacent part of the Melville Peninsula, and in other Inuit communities in the far north of Nunavut, like Resolute, Grise Fiord, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, and Arctic Bay.

The governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories generally consider it to be a dialect of Inuktitut, due to its location in Nunavut, as do some linguists, but it is instead sometimes classified as a dialect of Inuvialuktun. However, Inuktitut and Inuvialuktun form a dialect continuum with few sharp boundaries.

The North Baffin dialect is the spoken in the film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.

References

1. Dorais, Louis-Jacques; Sammons, Susan (2000). "Discourse and Identity in the Baffin Region". Arctic Anthropology. 37 (2): 92–110. JSTOR 40316532 – via JSTOR.
2. "Canada". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-04-15.

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Aleut	Aleut Mednyj Aleut
Eskimoan	Inuit Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktitut North Baffin Inuttitut Inuktun Inuvialuktun Siglitun Aivilik Inuinnaqtun Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik Utkuhiksalik Iñupiaq (Iñupiaq Braille) Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Yupik Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Chaplino St. Lawrence Island Naukan Sirenik
See also	Proto-Eskaleut Proto-Eskimoan Inuktitut syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik numerals Yugtun script
Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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