Inuktun

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Inuktun is a dialect of the Inuit language spoken by the Inughuit people of northwestern Greenland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eskimo–Aleut language variety
Inuit language variety
dialect
closelyRelatedTo Inuinnaqtun
Inuktitut
Kalaallisut
country Greenland
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
hasAlternativeName Avanersuarmiutut
Kalaallisut
surface form: North Greenlandic

Inuit
surface form: Polar Eskimo
hasCulturalAssociation Inuit
surface form: Greenlandic Inuit culture

Inughuit traditional lifestyle
hasDomain Arctic environment
Arctic hunting culture
sea ice terminology
hasEthnicGroup Inuit
surface form: Inughuit
hasLinguisticArea Arctic region
surface form: High Arctic
hasMorphologicalFeature extensive suffixation
polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature three-vowel system
hasSpeakerCommunitySize small population
hasStatus minority language in Greenland
hasTypologicalFeature ergative–absolutive alignment
head-marking language
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
influencedBy Kalaallisut
isSpokenNear Qaanaaq
Thule Air Base
languageBranch Inuit languages
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
region Thule area
spokenBy Inuit
surface form: Inughuit people
spokenIn Avanersuaq region
northwestern Greenland
subclassOf Inuit languages
surface form: Inuit language
threatenedBy language shift to Danish
language shift to Kalaallisut
usedFor daily communication
traditional knowledge transmission
writingSystem Latin script

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Inuit speaks Inuktun