Inuktitut
name of several Inuit languages spoken in Canada
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Key Facts
- Country: Canada[3], Greenland[4]
- Instance of: indigenous language[5], macrolanguage[6], modern language[7], dialect continuum[8]
- Subclass of: Inuit[9], Indigenous languages of the Americas[10]
- Writing system: Inuktitut syllabics[11], Latin script[12], Canadian Aboriginal syllabics[13], Eskimo alphabet[14]
- Commons category: Inuit languages[15]
- Wikimedia language code: iu[16]
- Has part(s): Nunatsiavummiut[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:Inuktitut[18]
- Language regulatory body: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami[19]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 39,770[20]
- Native label: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ[21], Inuktitut[22]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[23]
- Indigenous to: Nunavut[24], Nunavik[25]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/IKU[26]
- Has grammatical case: ergative-genitive case[27]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[28], agglutinative language[29], polysynthetic language[30], ergative–absolutive language[31]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Inuktitut-language films[32]
Why It Matters
Inuktitut has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Inuktitut is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]