Inuktitut

Or I·nuk·ti·tuut

[ih-nook-ti-toot, ih-nyook-]

noun

1. a dialect of Inuit, spoken in the Canadian Arctic.

Inuktitut

/ ɪˈnʊktɪˌtʊt /

noun

1. the language of the Inuit

Word History and Origins

Origin of Inuktitut¹

from Inuktitut inuk man + titut speech

Example Sentences

The stories in this unmatched collection mercilessly tap into the horrors that can fester in the human heart, as well as taaqtumi—Inuktitut for “in the dark.”

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In Nunavut, one of Canada's three northern territories, the majority-Inuit population speak Inuktitut.

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Agguttinni means "where the prevailing wind occurs" in the Inuktitut local dialect.

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Yet another was written entirely in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language spoken in northern Canada, far from Alaska.

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After his address, a choir sang the Lord’s Prayer in Inuktitut.

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