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Iqaluit, NU, Canada
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High: -24°F
Precipitation: 2%
Humidity: 69%
Wind: 3 mph
Tuesday 4:00 PM
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Introduction
Hi! We’re back! After a looong winter break. But now we are gonna keep doing the webpage! There are only 2 more weeks until we start changing up the webpage format. But back to the topic. 🙂 The name for the language that the Inuit speak is called Inuktitut. Cool name, huh? Inuktitut used to be widely spoken along the northish coast of Alaska, Greenland and Canada (ya know, like around ALL those little and big islands that are in the north above Canada). But now since the colonizer came and genocided them and stole the cute little Inuit kids so that they (the colonizer white men) could rip them of the Inuit kids culture and language. But did the colonizers win? NO, they did not! The Inuit people are now revitalizing their Language and Culture! So now there are 39,475 Speakers! YAAAAAAAAAAAA! While looking on my computer I found that there is a lot of information and that some signs are translated into Inuktitut. THAT’S SO COOL! (imagine the gif of Kermit the frog going crazy, okay cool glad I got that in your mind :D) Also the Inuit have a cool way of singing. Throat singing.
1.A member of the Inuit people is called an Inuk.
2.The warm soft boots worn by the Inuit are called mukluks or kamik.
3. In order to mark areas and to keep from getting lost, paths were marked with a pile of stones called an inuksuk.
Words
Hello – Halu
Welcome – Tungasugit
Goodbye (to one person) – Tavvauvutit
Thank you – Nakurmiik
Help! – Ikajunga!
Yes – Ii
No – Aakka or Aagaa
Delicious – Mamaqtuq
Wonderful – Alianait
Polar Bear – Nanuq
Seal – Nattiq
Caribou – Tuktu
In Nunavut there are 4 official languages, French, English, Inuinnaqtun, and Inuktitut.
I think that the Inuit language, Inuktitut, is the momma language and all the languages like Qikiqtaaluk nigiani, Nunavimmiutitut, Inuttitut, Inuktun, Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialukton, Inupiaq, Inuinnaqtun are the baby languages (like dialects).
Ohhhhhhh, AND Inuit language week is the week of the 18 – 22 in February.
Words
hello Halu Ha-lu
Welcome Tungasugit Toong-a-su-git
Goodbye (to one person) Tavvauvutit Tah-vow-voo-teet
Goodbye to all (plural) Tavvauvusi Tah-vow-voo-see
Thank you Nakurmiik Na-koor-meek
You are welcome Ilaali Ee-lah-li
Good Morning Ulaakut Oo-lah-coot
Good Afternoon Unusakut Oo-nah-sa-coot
Good Evening Unukut Oo-new-coot
What is your name? Kinauvit? Kee-nau-veet?
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