10 Facts About Inuktitut

Term Inuktitut is sometimes used more broadly to include Inuvialuktun and thus nearly all the Inuit dialects of Canada.

The Inuktitut language provided them with all the vocabulary required to describe traditional practices and natural features.

The Inuit themselves viewed Inuktitut as the way to express their feelings and be linked to their identity, while English was a tool for making money.

Inuktitut was seen as a language worth preserving, and it was argued that knowledge, particularly in the first years of school, is best transmitted in the mother tongue.

Inuktitut became one of the official languages in the Northwest Territories in 1984.

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All dialects of Inuktitut have only three basic vowels and make a phonological distinction between short and long forms of all vowels.

Inuktitut has hundreds of distinct suffixes, in some dialects as many as 700.

Inuktitut syllabary used in Canada is based on the Cree syllabary devised by the missionary James Evans.

The present form of the syllabary for Canadian Inuktitut was adopted by the Inuit Cultural Institute in Canada in the 1970s.

All of the characters needed for the Inuktitut syllabary are available in the Unicode block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.