Proto-Inuit

E353186

ancestral language proto-language reconstructed language

Proto-Inuit is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the modern Inuit languages, including Inuvialuktun, are derived.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Proto-Inuit canonical	4
Proto-Eskimo	2
Proto-Inuit-Inupiaq	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancestral language ⓘ proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ
followedBy	Inuit languages ⓘ Proto-Inuit self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Proto-Inuit-Inupiaq Proto-Inuit-Yupik ⓘ
hasDescendant	Inuktitut ⓘ surface form: Eastern Canadian Inuktitut Kalaallisut ⓘ surface form: Greenlandic Inuinnaqtun ⓘ Inuktitut ⓘ Inuktun ⓘ Inupiaq ⓘ Inuvialuktun ⓘ Kalaallisut ⓘ Labrador Inuttitut ⓘ surface form: Labrador Inuttut NunatuKavut Inuit ⓘ surface form: Nunatsiavummiutut Inuktitut ⓘ surface form: Nunavimmiutitut Inuvialuit language ⓘ surface form: Western Canadian Inuktitut
hasDescendantGroup	Inuit dialect continuum ⓘ
hasFeature	complex verbal morphology ⓘ conjunct and independent clause marking (reconstructed) ⓘ deictic distinctions ancestral to modern Inuit languages ⓘ demonstrative system ancestral to modern Inuit demonstratives ⓘ derivational verbal suffixes ancestral to modern Inuit ⓘ distinction between long and short vowels (reconstructed) ⓘ ergative alignment (reconstructed) ⓘ geminate consonants (reconstructed) ⓘ indicative and subjunctive-like moods (reconstructed) ⓘ lexicon related to Arctic environment (reconstructed) ⓘ mood distinctions ancestral to modern Inuit moods ⓘ nominal derivational suffixes ancestral to modern Inuit ⓘ person and number agreement on verbs (reconstructed) ⓘ polysynthetic morphology ⓘ possessive inflection on nouns (reconstructed) ⓘ postbases used to build complex predicates ⓘ rich case system (reconstructed) ⓘ small phoneme inventory (reconstructed) ⓘ suffixing morphology ⓘ vowel harmony (reconstructed) ⓘ
languageFamily	Eskimo–Aleut languages ⓘ surface form: Eskimo-Aleut
partOf	Eskimo branch of Eskimo-Aleut ⓘ
reconstructedBy	comparative method ⓘ
spokenIn	Arctic regions of North America ⓘ Greenland region (ancestral) ⓘ
status	not directly attested ⓘ reconstructed from modern Inuit languages ⓘ
subclassOf	Eskimo–Aleut languages ⓘ surface form: Eskimo-Aleut languages Eskimo–Aleut languages ⓘ surface form: Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages
timeDepth	last two millennia BCE–CE (approximate, reconstructed) ⓘ late Holocene ⓘ
writingSystem	none ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Inuvialuktun → lexifier → Proto-Inuit ⓘ

Aivilimmiutut → hasAncestor → Proto-Inuit ⓘ

Inuit languages → historicallyDerivedFrom → Proto-Inuit ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proto-Eskimo

Proto-Yupik → relatedTo → Proto-Inuit ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proto-Eskimo

Siglitun → hasAncestor → Proto-Inuit ⓘ

Proto-Inuit → followedBy → Proto-Inuit self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proto-Inuit-Inupiaq