Inuktun

E79533

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Inuktun canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Inuit → speaks → Inuktun ⓘ
Inuit languages → hasPart → Inuktun ⓘ
Qaanaaq → hasLanguage → Inuktun ⓘ
Proto-Inuit → hasDescendant → Inuktun ⓘ