Labrador Inuttitut
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Labrador Inuttitut is a regional variety of the Inuit language traditionally spoken by Inuit communities along the coast of Labrador in Canada.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous language variety of Canada
→
Inuit language variety → regional dialect → |
| associatedWith |
Inuit region of Labrador
→
surface form: "Labrador Inuit land claims region"
Nunatsiavut → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Inuktitut
→
surface form: "Nunavik Inuktitut"
Inuktitut →
surface form: "Nunavut Inuktitut"
|
| country | Canada → |
| ethnicGroup |
NunatuKavut Inuit
→
surface form: "Labrador Inuit"
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Inuttut
→
Labrador Inuttitut →
surface form: "Labrador Inuktitut"
Labrador Inuttitut →
surface form: "Labrador Inuttut"
|
| hasCommunityOrganizationSupport | Torngâsok Cultural Centre → |
| hasDistinctFeature |
distinct orthographic conventions compared to other Canadian Inuktitut dialects
→
lexical differences from other Inuktitut varieties → |
| hasDomain | cultural and ceremonial contexts among Labrador Inuit → |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
English
→
German Moravian missionary orthographic traditions → |
| hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort |
Nunatsiavut language programs
→
school-based immersion initiatives in Labrador Inuit communities → |
| hasMorphologyType |
agglutinative
→
polysynthetic → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | three-vowel system → |
| hasStandardizationEffort | development of standardized Labrador Inuttitut orthography → |
| hasWordOrder | subject–object–verb dominant → |
| historicallyDocumentedBy | Moravian missionaries in Labrador → |
| isSubjectOf | linguistic documentation projects in Labrador → |
| isTaughtIn | some schools in Nunatsiavut → |
| languageBranch | Inuit → |
| languageFamily |
Eskimo–Aleut languages
→
surface form: "Eskimo–Aleut"
|
| partOf |
Eskimo–Aleut languages
→
surface form: "Eskimo–Aleut language family"
|
| region |
Central coast of Labrador
→
Inuit region of Labrador →
surface form: "North coast of Labrador"
South coast of Labrador → |
| spokenIn |
Labrador
→
Newfoundland and Labrador → |
| status | endangered language variety → |
| subdivisionOf |
Inuit languages
→
surface form: "Inuit language"
Inuktitut → |
| traditionalSpeakers | Inuit communities along the coast of Labrador → |
| usedAs | language of daily communication in some Labrador Inuit communities → |
| usedBy |
Nunatsiavut
→
surface form: "Nunatsiavut Government"
|
| usedIn |
community education programs in Labrador
→
local media in Nunatsiavut → |
| writingSystem | Latin script → |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Labrador Inuttut"
this entity surface form: "Labrador Inuktitut"