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Inuktitut
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inuktitut
English
Etymology
en iu ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ like the Inuit.
Pronunciation
en /ɪˈnʊktɪtʊt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Inuktitut.wav Southern England
Proper noun
The language of the Inuit people.
en 2018 Tanya Tagaq Split Tooth And Other Stories (2023) 46 I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.
en Marie-Ève Hudon Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories 2025 Library of Parliament Ottawa, Canada https://lop.parl.ca/staticfiles/PublicWebsite/Home/ResearchPublications/HillStudies/PDF/2011-66-E.pdf 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. 30 https://web.archive.org/web/20260124120430/https://lop.parl.ca/staticfiles/PublicWebsite/Home/ResearchPublications/HillStudies/PDF/2011-66-E.pdf 24 January 2026
Translations
language
Arabic: ar إِنُكْتِيتُوتِيَّة f
Bulgarian: bg инуктитут
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 因紐特語 jan1 nau5 dak6 jyu5
Mandarin: cmn 因紐特語 Yīnniǔtè yǔ
Czech: cs inuktitutština f
Dutch: nl Inuktitut n
Esperanto: eo inuktituto
Finnish: fi inuktitut
French: fr inuktitut m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Inûktitût n
Georgian: ka ინუკტიტუტი
German: de Inuktitut n
Greenlandic: kl Inuktitut
Hebrew: he אינוקטיטוט inuktitut
Inuktitut: iu ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
Irish: ga Ionúitis f
Japanese: ja イヌクティトゥット語 Inukutitutto-go
Korean: ko ^이누이트-어
Macedonian: mk инуктитут
Mapudungun: arn inuwit dungun
Navajo: nv Náhookǫsjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad
Persian: fa اینوکتیتوت inuktitut
Polish: pl eskimoski m-in, pl inuktitut m-in
Portuguese: pt inuktitut m
Russian: ru инуктиту́т m
Slovak: sk inuktitut
Spanish: es inuktitut m
Tamil: ta இனுக்ரிருற் மொழி
Ukrainian: uk інуктитут
See also
iu
Further reading
1 iu iku
iku, a macrolanguage including:
ike Eastern Canadian Inuktitut
ikt Western Canadian Inuktitut
Related languages:
kal Greenlandic Inuktitut
en Languages
Inuktitut
Alternative forms
iu inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
Etymology
like the Inuit.
Proper noun
proper noun l ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
en Inuktitut the language of the Inuit people ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
iu Languages