''Kangiryuarmiutun'' (sometimes ''Kangirjuarmiut(un)''), is a dialect of
Inuit language spoken in
Ulukhaktok
Ulukhaktok (Kangiryuarmiutun (Inuit language) spelling ''Ulukhaqtuuq'' () and known until 1 April 2006 as ''Holman'' or ''Holman Island'') is a small hamlet on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, ...
,
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
, Canada by the
Kangiryuarmiut, a
Copper Inuit
Copper Inuit, also known as Kitlinermiut and Inuinnait, are a Canadian Inuit group who live north of the tree line, in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest ...
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 dialects and sub-dial ...
language. The people of Ulukhaktok prefer to think of it as
Inuinnaqtun 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
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* English language
* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
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name
Prince Albert Sound,
Victoria Island
Victoria Island ( ikt, Kitlineq, italic=yes) is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the eighth-largest island in the world, and at in area, it is ...
. 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
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