Read about the Inuit language, its dialects and find out where it is spoken. Learn about the structure and get familiar with the alphabet and writing.
I refer to Minnie Aodla Freeman, an Inuit woman accomplished writer and translator, to talk about Inuktitut (Inuit language) and art. We Inuit have adapted and adopted many different words to accommodate our understanding of our changing world. Very often, we make up a word that may not ...
The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words. Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app (also Inuktitut) [uncountable] the language of the Inuit people Word OriginSee...
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Inuit Words in English Many Inuit spoke a language called Inuktitut . Some of the words they used are now words that we use in English. igloo : a dome-shaped house built from blocks of snow kayak : a light and narrow boat , like a ca...
Inuit Click for a side-by-side comparison of meanings. Use the word comparison feature to learn the differences between similar and commonly confused words.Origin of Inuit1 First recorded in 1755–65; from Inuit: literally, “people,” plural of inuk “person”...
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Her education in the language, she says, has shed some light for her on why Inuit people tend to interrupt less than southerners. U.S. priest learns Inuktitut in 1.5 years The Inuit people, who also live in the Arctic, respect the nanuq (their word for polar bear), and now you kno...
In his words, "I was constantly dependent upon the journeying of others to furnish my chance means of transport." The intrepid adventurer waited for weeks at a time to catch a lift with some Hudson's Bay Company supply vessel or beg a ride on an Inuit dog sled. Taming the arctic: Adv...
This paper argues that wordhood in the polysynthetic Inuit language is predictable from syntactic structure and that words correspond to the domains of CP and DP. This entails that Inuit's morphological component need not be any more complex than that of more isolating languages and that individual...