Inuit dialects. (Broader) Netsilik is the dark green in the center.
Natsilingmiutut is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Natchilingmiutut (ᓇᑦᕠᓕᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ),[1][2]Netsilik/ˌnɛtˈsɪlɪk/,[3]Natsilik, Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut,[4]Nattilingmiutut,[5] or Nattiliŋmiutut[6] is an Inuit language variety spoken in western Nunavut, Canada, by Netsilik Inuit.
Natchilingmiutut (ᓇᑦᕠᓕᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ 'people from Natchilik') came from natsik 'seal' + postbase -lik 'place with something' + postbase -miut 'inhabitants of'.
^Supporting the Natchilingmiutut dialect
^Natchilik language tools
^"Netsilik". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
^"Preserving Inuit Dialects in Nunavut, January 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
^Teacher devises special syllabics for Nattilingmiutut
(ᓇᑦᕠᓕᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ), Netsilik /ˌnɛtˈsɪlɪk/, Natsilik, Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut, Nattilingmiutut, or Nattiliŋmiutut is an Inuit language variety spoken...
h in western Nunavut Found in Natsilingmiutut (ᓇᑦᓯᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ) Found in Natsilingmiutut (ᓇᑦᓯᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ) Found in Natsilingmiutut (ᓇᑦᓯᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ) Found in Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ)...
except in Gjoa Haven, where Inuit syllabics are used (as for Natsilingmiutut). Natsilingmiutut Utkuhiksalik "Census in Brief: The Aboriginal languages of...
language dialects throughout the Canadian Arctic (Siglitun, Inuinnaqtun, Natsilingmiutut, Kivalliq, North Baffin) use iglu for all buildings, including snowhouses...
Nunavut communities of Kugluktuk, Bathurst Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Natsilingmiutut used by the Netsilingmiut of Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak, Kugaaruk and Repulse...
or Caribou on the southern Hudson Bay shore of the Kivalliq Region Natsilingmiutut or Netsilik consists of three subdialects: Natsilik proper, Arviligjuaq...
Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut, Utku, Gjoa Haven dialect, is a sub-dialect of Natsilingmiutut (Nattiliŋmiut) dialect of Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuit or Inuktitut)...
fifteen distinct consonants, though some have more. /ɟ/ appears only in Natsilingmiutut. Everywhere else it has merged with /j/; it is not written with a separate...
assimilates [ɴ] before nasals. /h/ replaces /s/ in Kivallirmiutut and Natsilingmiutut, and replaces both /s/ and /ɬ/ in Inuinnaqtun. All voiceless stops...
and Nunavik in northern Quebec. Unicode 14.0 added support for the Natsilingmiutut language of Western Nunavut. In other Inuit areas, various Latin alphabets...
adopt a syllabic system of writing. The Netsilik's spoken language is Natsilingmiutut. It is a dialect of Inuvialuktun and the only one written in syllabics...
Tuktoyaktuk) Inuinnaqtun (in Ulukhaktok also known as Kangiryuarmiutun) Natsilingmiutut (Netsilik area, Nunavut) Inuktitut (eastern Canada; 36,000 speakers...
science lab. Currently there are two language specialists who teach Natsilingmiutut, while the rest of the staff are southern teachers.[when?] In 2010...
spoken by the Copper Inuit group, the Kangiryuarmiut). Others include Natsilingmiutut, spoken by the Netsilik, with its sub-dialects including Utkuhiksalik...
soapstone of the area, therefore their name. Their dialect is a variant of Natsilingmiutut, spoken by the Netsilik. Lacking an early written language, Kivallirmiut...
artists. She was a fluent speaker of Utkuhiksalik, a sub dialect of Natsilingmiutut spoken by Netsilik (Natsilik) within the Western Canadian Inuit dialect...
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