Inuktitut

See also: inuktitut

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot, “like the Inuit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʊktɪtʊt/

Proper noun

Inuktitut

1. The language of the Inuit people.
   • 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 46:

     I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.

Translations

language

• Arabic: إِنُكْتِيتُوتِيَّة f (ʔinuktītūtiyya)
• Bulgarian: инуктитут (inuktitut)
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 因紐特語／因纽特语 (zh) (Yīnniǔtè yǔ)

• Czech: inuktitutština f
• Dutch: Inuktitut (nl) n
• Esperanto: inuktituto
• Finnish: inuktitut (fi)
• French: inuktitut (fr) m
• Georgian: ინუკტიტუტი (inuḳṭiṭuṭi)
• German: Inuktitut (de) n
• Greenlandic: Inuktitut (kl)
• Hebrew: אינוקטיטוט (inuktitut)
• Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (iu) (inoktitot)
• Irish: Ionúitis f
• Japanese: イヌクティトゥット語 (ja) (Inukutitutto-go)
• Korean: 이누이트어 (Inu'iteu-eo)
• Macedonian: инуктитут (inuktitut)
• Mapudungun: inuwit dungun
• Navajo: Náhookǫsjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad
• Persian: اینوکتیتوت (inuktitut)
• Polish: eskimoski (pl) m inan, inuktitut m inan
• Portuguese: inuktitut (pt) m
• Russian: инуктиту́т (ru) m (inuktitút)
• Slovak: inuktitut
• Spanish: inuktitut (es) m
• Tamil: இனுக்ரிருற் மொழி (iṉukriruṟ moḻi)
• Ukrainian: інуктитут (uk) (inuktytut)
• West Frisian: Inûktitût n

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Inuktitut terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code iu, ISO 639-3 code iku (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Inuktitut, iku ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

  Ethnologue entry for Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, ike ⁠

  Ethnologue entry for Western Canadian Inuktitut, ikt ⁠

Related languages:

• Ethnologue entry for Greenlandic Inuktitut, kal ⁠

Inuktitut

Alternative forms

• inuktitut, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot)

Etymology

Literally "like the Inuit".

Proper noun

Inuktitut (syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ)

1. Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit people) Latin spelling of ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot)