''Kangiryuarmiutun'' (sometimes ''Kangirjuarmiut(un)'') is a dialect of
Inuit language
The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent subarctic regions as far south as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branche ...
spoken in
Ulukhaktok,
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...
, Canada by the
Kangiryuarmiut, a
Copper Inuit group. The dialect is part of the
Inuvialuktun
Inuvialuktun (part of ''Western Canadian Inuit'' / ''Inuktitut'' / '' Inuktut'' / '' Inuktun'') comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by Canadian Inuit who call themselves ''Inuvialuit''. Some d ...
language. The people of Ulukhaktok prefer to think of it as
Inuinnaqtun
Inuinnaqtun (, ; natively meaning 'like the real human beings/peoples') is an Inuit language. It is spoken in the central Canadian Arctic. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and some scholars, such as Richard Condon, believe that Inuinna ...
and it is essentially the same.
It is derived from
Kangiryuak (meaning "the big bay"), and named for the people that lived there, the Kangiryuarmiut, which is known by its
English name
Prince Albert Sound,
Victoria Island. Victoria Island is the ancestral home of the Copper Inuit.
Vocabulary comparison
The comparison of some animal names in the
Siglitun and Kangiryuarmiutun subdialects of the Inuinnaqtun dialect of Inuvialuktun:
Olokhaktomiut Community Conservation Plan, July 2008
See also
* Uummarmiutun
References
External links
Inuvaluit Region - Languages
Agglutinative languages
Indigenous languages of the North American Arctic
Inuvialuit languages
Copper Inuit
Inuktitut words and phrases
Ulukhaktok
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