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