Inuit

Chinese:
Cantonese: 因紐特人／因纽特人 (jan¹ nau⁵ dak⁶ jan⁴)

Mandarin: 因紐特人／因纽特人 (zh) (Yīnniǔtèrén)
Czech: inuita m, inuité m pl
Danish: inuit c
Esperanto: inuitoj
Finnish: inuitti
French: Inuit (fr)
Hindi: इनुइत m (inuit)
Inuktitut:
Roman: inuit

Syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit)
Inupiaq: Iñuit
Norwegian:
Bokmål: inuitt m

Nynorsk: inuitt m
Portuguese: inuítes m pl
Russian: инуи́т (ru) m (inuít), инуи́тка f (inuítka)
Ukrainian: інуї́ти (inujíty), інуї́т m (inujít), інуї́тка f (inujítka)

Proper nounEdit

Inuit

Inuktitut, the Inuit language.

MeronymsEdit

Inupiatun, Inupiak (Alaska)
Inuvialuktun (Northwest Territories)
Inuinnaqtun (Western Nunavut, Central Arctic Canada)
Inuktitut (Nunavut)
Nunavimmiutitut (Nunavik, Northern Quebec)
Nunatsiavummiutut, Labradorimiutut, or locally Inuttut (Nunatsiavut, Labrador)
Greenlandic, Greenlandish, Kalaallisut (Greenland)

TranslationsEdit

the language

Chinese:
Cantonese: 因紐特語／因纽特语 (jan¹ nau⁵ dak⁶ jyu⁵)

Mandarin: 因紐特語／因纽特语 (zh) (Yīnniǔtèyǔ)
Czech: inuitština f
Finnish: inuitti
Hindi: इनुइत f (inuit)
Inuktitut:
Roman: Inuktitut (iu)

Syllabics: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (iu) (inoktitot)
Inupiaq: Iñupiatun, Iñupiaq
Norwegian:
Bokmål: inuittisk m

Nynorsk: inuittisk m
Portuguese: inuíte m
Russian: инуи́тский язы́к m (inuítskij jazýk)
Ukrainian: інуї́тська мо́ва f (inujítsʹka móva), інуї́тська f (inujítsʹka)

AdjectiveEdit

Inuit (comparative more Inuit, superlative most Inuit)

Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture

Czech: inuitský m
Danish: inuitisk
French: inuit (fr)
Hindi: इनुइत (inuit)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: inuittisk

Nynorsk: inuittisk
Portuguese: inuíte
Russian: инуи́тский (inuítskij)
Ukrainian: інуї́тський (inujítsʹkyj)

Usage notesEdit

The collective term in English for the northernmost indigenous peoples of North America used to be Eskimo, an exonym that has since declined in usage as greater interaction between both language groups. There is a dialect continuum stretching roughly east-west, Alaska to Greenland, of Inuit language varieties, with neighbouring regions' being mutual intelligible but farther separated groups having less linguistic overlap—vocabulary for shared concepts are usually cognates. Yupik peoples of western Alaska (and small proportion in the islands and coast of Russian Far East) speak languages closely related to those of Inuit but without significant intelligibility (unless learned). Inuit and Yupik languages comprise the family referred to as either Eskimo or Inuit-Yupik.

Inuit is the usual term in Canada (often grouped into western and eastern categories); is accepted as the continental umbrella term in Greenland but not for their of languages or group; and has gained some currency in the United States. However, Eskimo continues to be the prevalent name in Alaska for both the Inuit Inupiat people and the non-Inuit Yupik. Also note that the terms Inuit and Eskimo do not include the related Aleut people (Unangam, see also Eskaleut), nor the other Native (First Nations) peoples of the Arctic.

Many dictionaries do not list Inuits as a plural form. Inuit is usually used as an ethnonym with no singular form (like Chinese). The need to treat Inuit as a singular has been obviated by wider recognition of its etymological singular form Inuk in recent times.

ReferencesEdit

“Inuit” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Inuit”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Inuit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Eskimo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Inuktitut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Inuit language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia