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Inuktitut
[ih-nook-ti-toot, ih-nyook-]
noun
a dialect of Inuit, spoken in the Canadian Arctic.
Inuktitut
/ ɪˈʊɪˌʊ /
noun
the language of the Inuit
Word History and Origins
Origin of Inuktitut1
Example Sentences
In Nunavut, one of Canada's three northern territories, the majority-Inuit population speak Inuktitut.
Agguttinni means "where the prevailing wind occurs" in the Inuktitut local dialect.
Yet another was written entirely in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language spoken in northern Canada, far from Alaska.
After his address, a choir sang the Lord’s Prayer in Inuktitut.
He delivered his remarks in his native Spanish, translated to English and Inuktitut, in this remote region 200 miles from the Arctic Circle, where residential schools transformed life for the majority-Inuit population.
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