Inuktitut
E17515
Inuktitut is an Inuit language spoken primarily in northern Canada, especially in Nunavut and parts of Quebec, and is one of the territory’s official languages.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inuktitut canonical | 73 |
| Inuttitut | 6 |
| Inuktut | 4 |
| Nunavik Inuktitut | 2 |
| Nunavut Inuktitut | 2 |
| Central Canadian Inuktitut | 1 |
| Eastern Canadian Inuktitut | 1 |
| Inuktitut language | 1 |
| Inuktut (in some Canadian contexts) | 1 |
| Nunavimmiutitut | 1 |
| ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T121340 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Inuktitut Context triple: [Inupiaq, closelyRelatedTo, Inuktitut]
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A.
Inupiaq
Inupiaq is an Indigenous Inuit language spoken by the Inupiat people of northern and northwestern Alaska and parts of Arctic Canada.
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B.
Alutiiq
Alutiiq is an Indigenous language of the Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) people of south-central coastal Alaska, particularly Kodiak Island and the surrounding regions.
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C.
Tlingit
Tlingit is an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest Coast, traditionally spoken by the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska and western Canada.
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D.
Inuit
The Inuit are an Indigenous people of the Arctic known for their rich cultural traditions, close relationship with the polar environment, and historical reliance on hunting and fishing for subsistence.
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E.
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is an Indigenous Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by the Yup’ik people of western and southwestern Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Inuktitut Target entity description: Inuktitut is an Inuit language spoken primarily in northern Canada, especially in Nunavut and parts of Quebec, and is one of the territory’s official languages.
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A.
Inupiaq
Inupiaq is an Indigenous Inuit language spoken by the Inupiat people of northern and northwestern Alaska and parts of Arctic Canada.
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B.
Alutiiq
Alutiiq is an Indigenous language of the Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) people of south-central coastal Alaska, particularly Kodiak Island and the surrounding regions.
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C.
Tlingit
Tlingit is an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest Coast, traditionally spoken by the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska and western Canada.
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D.
Inuit
The Inuit are an Indigenous people of the Arctic known for their rich cultural traditions, close relationship with the polar environment, and historical reliance on hunting and fishing for subsistence.
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E.
Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is an Indigenous Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by the Yup’ik people of western and southwestern Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Inuit language
ⓘ
agglutinative language ⓘ natural language ⓘ polysynthetic language ⓘ subject–object–verb language ⓘ |
| etymology | from Inuit word meaning “like an Inuk” or “in the manner of an Inuk” ⓘ |
| hasAutonym |
Inuktitut
self-link
ⓘ
Inuktitut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
|
| hasCaseSystem | ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Aivilimmiutut
ⓘ
Inuvialuktun ⓘ
surface form:
Kivallirmiutut
Labrador Inuttitut ⓘ Inuktitut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nunavik Inuktitut
Inuktitut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nunavut Inuktitut
Qikiqtaaluk nigiani ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalNumber |
dual
ⓘ
plural ⓘ singular ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
extensive use of suffixes
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incorporation of nouns into verbs ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
distinction between short and long vowels
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limited consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRegulator |
Inatsisartut
ⓘ
surface form:
Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit
Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
ⓘ
surface form:
Inuktitut syllabics
Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| isEndangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | iu ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | iku ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | iku ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Eskimo–Aleut languages ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf |
Northwest Territories
ⓘ
Nunavut ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Inuit ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Labrador ⓘ Northwest Territories ⓘ Nunavik ⓘ Nunavut ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| subfamily | Inuit languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education in Nunavut
ⓘ
local government in Nunavut ⓘ media in northern Canada ⓘ |
| usesScript |
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
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Latin script ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemIntroduced | Inuktitut syllabics in the 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Inuktitut Description of subject: Inuktitut is an Inuit language spoken primarily in northern Canada, especially in Nunavut and parts of Quebec, and is one of the territory’s official languages.
Referenced by (93)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.