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Kivalliq dialect information


Kivalliq
Caribou
Kivallirmiutut
Native toCanada
Regioncoastal Kivalliq Region, Nunavut
Language family
Eskaleut
  • Eskimo
    • Inuit
      • (variously considered Inuvialuktun or Inuktitut)
        • Kivalliq
Early forms
Proto-Eskimo–Aleut
  • Proto-Eskimo
    • Proto-Inuit
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologcari1277
Inuit dialects. Kivalliq is the lighter green to the west of Hudson Bay.
Kivallirmiutut is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Kivalliq, also known as Kivallirmiutut, Caribou Eskimo, or formerly as Keewatin, is a dialect of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut[1] which is spoken along the northwestern shores of Hudson Bay in Nunavut.

  1. ^ Tulloch, Shelley. "Preserving Inuit Dialects in Nunavut" (PDF).

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