Английская Википедия:Inuktitut

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Distinguish Шаблон:Infobox language Шаблон:Infobox ethnonym Inuktitut (Шаблон:IPAc-en Шаблон:Respell; Шаблон:IPA-iku, syllabics Шаблон:Lang; from Шаблон:Wikt-lang, 'person' + Шаблон:Lang, 'like', 'in the manner of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the North American tree line, including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, to some extent in northeastern Manitoba as well as the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. It is one of the aboriginal languages written with Canadian Aboriginal syllabics.

It is recognised as an official language in Nunavut alongside Inuinnaqtun, and both languages are known collectively as Inuktut. Further, it is recognized as one of eight official native tongues in the Northwest Territories. It also has legal recognition in Nunavik—a part of Quebec—thanks in part to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, and is recognised in the Charter of the French Language as the official language of instruction for Inuit school districts there. It also has some recognition in Nunatsiavut—the Inuit area in Labrador—following the ratification of its agreement with the government of Canada and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The 2016 Canadian census reports that 70,540 individuals identify themselves as Inuit, of whom 37,570 self-reported Inuktitut as their mother tongue.

The term Inuktitut is also the name of a macrolanguage and, in that context, also includes Inuvialuktun, and thus nearly all Inuit dialects of Canada. However, Statistics Canada lists all Inuit languages in the Canadian census as Inuktut.

History

Inuktitut in the Canadian school system

Before contact with Europeans, Inuit learned skills by example and participation. The Inuktitut language provided them with all the vocabulary required to describe traditional practices and natural features. Up to this point, it was solely an oral language. Colonialism brought the European schooling system over to Canada. The missionaries of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches were the first ones to deliver formal education to Inuit in schools. The teachers used the Inuktitut language for instruction and developed writing systems.

In 1928 the first residential school for Inuit opened, and English became the language of instruction. As the government's interests in the north increased, it started taking over the education of Inuit. After the end of World War II, English was seen as the language of communication in all domains. Officials expressed concerns about the difficulty for Inuit to find employment if they were not able to communicate in English. Inuit were supposed to use English at school, work, and even on the playground. 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.

In the 1960s, the European attitude towards the Inuktitut language started to change. 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. This set off the beginning of bilingual schools. In 1969, most Inuit voted to eliminate federal schools and replace them with programs by the Шаблон:Ill (Шаблон:Lang). Content was now taught in Inuktitut, English, and French.

Legislation

Inuktitut became one of the official languages in the Northwest Territories in 1984. Its status is secured in the Northwest Territories Official Language Act. With the split of the Territory into NWT and Nunavut in 1999, both territories kept the Language Act. The autonomous area Nunatsiavut in Labrador made Inuktitut the government language when it was formed in 2005. In Nunavik, the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement recognizes Inuktitut in the education system.

Languages and dialects

Nunavut

Nunavut's basic law lists four official languages: English, French, Inuktitut, and Inuinnaqtun. It is ambiguous in state policy to what degree Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun can be thought of as separate languages. The words Inuktitut, or more correctly Inuktut ('Inuit language') are increasingly used to refer to both Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut together, or "Inuit languages" in English.

Nunavut is the home of some 24,000 Inuit, over 80% of whom speak Inuktitut. This includes some 3,500 people reported as monolinguals. The 2001 census data shows that the use of Inuktitut, while lower among the young than the elderly, has stopped declining in Canada as a whole and may even be increasing in Nunavut.

The South Baffin dialect (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang) is spoken across the southern part of Baffin Island, including the territorial capital Iqaluit. This has in recent years made it a much more widely heard dialect, since a great deal of Inuktitut media originates in Iqaluit. Some linguists also distinguish an East Baffin dialect from either South Baffin or North Baffin, which is an Inuvialuk dialect.

As of the early 2000s, Nunavut has gradually implemented early childhood, elementary, and secondary school-level immersion programmes within its education system to further preserve and promote the Inuktitut language. Шаблон:As of, "Pirurvik, Iqaluit's Inuktitut language training centre, has a new goal: to train instructors from Nunavut communities to teach Inuktitut in different ways and in their own dialects when they return home."

Nunavik

Quebec is home to roughly 15,800 Inuit, nearly all of whom live in Nunavik. According to the 2021 census, 80.9% of Quebec Inuit speak Inuktitut.

The Nunavik dialect (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang) is relatively close to the South Baffin dialect, but not identical. Because of the political and physical boundary between Nunavik and Nunavut, Nunavik has separate government and educational institutions from those in the rest of the Inuktitut-speaking world, resulting in a growing standardization of the local dialect as something separate from other forms of Inuktitut. In the Nunavik dialect, Inuktitut is called Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang). This dialect is also sometimes called Шаблон:Lang or Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang or Шаблон:Lang).

Subdialects of Inuktitut in this region include Tarrarmiut and Itivimuit. Itivimuit is associated with Inukjuak, Quebec, and there is an Itivimuit River near the town.

Labrador

The Nunatsiavut dialect (Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang or, often in government documents, Шаблон:Lang) was once spoken across northern Labrador. It has a distinct writing system, developed in Greenland in the 1760s by German missionaries from the Moravian Church. This separate writing tradition, the remoteness of Nunatsiavut from other Inuit communities, has made it into a distinct dialect with a separate literary tradition. The Nunatsiavummiut call their language Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang).

Although Nunatsiavut claims over 4,000 inhabitants of Inuit descent, only 550 reported Inuktitut to be their native language in the 2001 census, mostly in the town of Nain. Inuktitut is seriously endangered in Labrador.

Nunatsiavut also had a separate dialect reputedly much closer to western Inuktitut dialects, spoken in the area around Rigolet. According to news reports, in 1999 it had only three very elderly speakers.

Greenland

Though often thought to be a dialect of Greenlandic, Inuktun or Polar Eskimo is a recent arrival in Greenland from the Eastern Canadian Arctic, arriving perhaps as late as the 18th century.

Phonology

Шаблон:Main Eastern dialects of Inuktitut have fifteen consonants and three vowels (which can be long or short). Consonants are arranged with six places of articulation: bilabial, labiodental, alveolar, palatal, velar and uvular; and three manners of articulation: voiceless stops, voiced continuants and nasals, as well as two additional sounds—voiceless fricatives. Natsalingmiutut has an additional consonant Шаблон:IPA, a vestige of the retroflex consonants of Proto-Inuit. Inuinnaqtun has one fewer consonant, as Шаблон:IPA and Шаблон:IPA have merged into Шаблон:IPA. All dialects of Inuktitut have only three basic vowels and make a phonological distinction between short and long forms of all vowels. In Шаблон:Lang—Nunavut standard Roman orthography—long vowels are written as a double vowel.

Inuktitut vowels

		IPA	Inuujingajut	Notes
open front unrounded	Short	Шаблон:IPAslink	a
	Long	Шаблон:IPAslink	aa
closed front unrounded	Short	Шаблон:IPAslink	i	Short i is realised as Шаблон:IPA or Шаблон:IPA before uvular consonants Шаблон:IPA and Шаблон:IPA
	Long	Шаблон:IPAslink	ii
closed back rounded	Short	Шаблон:IPAslink	u	Short u is realised as Шаблон:IPA or Шаблон:IPA before uvular consonants Шаблон:IPA and Шаблон:IPA
	Long	Шаблон:IPAslink	uu

Inuktitut consonants in Inuujingajut and IPA notation

		Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar		Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		Шаблон:IPAlink	Шаблон:IPAlink		Шаблон:IPAlink
Stop		Шаблон:IPAlink	Шаблон:IPAlink	Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:Efn	Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:Efn	Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:Efn	Шаблон:IPAlink
Fricative	plain	Шаблон:IPAlink	Шаблон:IPAlink				Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:Efn	Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:Efn
	lateral		Шаблон:IPAlink
Approximant			Шаблон:IPAlink	Шаблон:IPAlink

All voiceless stops are unaspirated, like in many other languages. The voiceless uvular stop is usually written as q, but sometimes written as r. The voiceless lateral fricative is romanized as ɬ, but is often written as &, or simply as l.

/ŋ/ is spelt as ng, and geminated /ŋ/ is spelt as nng.

Grammar

Inuktitut, like other Eskimo–Aleut languages, has a very rich morphological system, in which a succession of different morphemes are added to root words to indicate things that, in languages like English, would require several words to express. (See also: Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language.) All words begin with a root morpheme to which other morphemes are suffixed. Inuktitut has hundreds of distinct suffixes, in some dialects as many as 700. However, it is highly regular, with rules that do not have exceptions like in English and other Indo-European languages, though they are sometimes very complicated.

One example is the word Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang) meaning 'I'll have to go to the airport:

Morpheme		Meaning	Morphophonological changes
Шаблон:Lang	verbal root	to raise/to be raised in the air
Шаблон:Lang	verb-to-noun suffix	one who habitually performs an action; thus Шаблон:Lang: airplane	-q is deleted
Шаблон:Lang	noun-to-noun suffix	group	-t is deleted
Шаблон:Lang	noun-to-noun suffix	enormous; thus Шаблон:Lang: airport	-k changes to -m
Шаблон:Lang	noun ending	dative singular, to	-t+a changes to -u
Шаблон:Lang	noun-to-verb suffix	arrival at a place; to go	-q+ja is deleted
Шаблон:Lang	verb-to-noun suffix	the obligation to perform an action	-q is deleted
Шаблон:Lang	noun-to-verb suffix	to have	-q is deleted
Шаблон:Lang	verb-to-verb suffix	future tense, will	-q+j changes to -q+t
Шаблон:Lang	verb ending	participle, first person singular, I

Writing

Latin alphabets

The western part of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories use a Latin alphabet usually called Шаблон:Lang or Шаблон:Lang, reflecting the predispositions of the missionaries who reached this area in the late 19th century and early 20th.

Moravian missionaries, with the purpose of introducing Inuit to Christianity and the Bible, contributed to the development of an Inuktitut alphabet in Greenland during the 1760s that was based on the Latin script. (This alphabet is distinguished by its inclusion of the letter kra, ĸ.) They later travelled to Labrador in the 1800s, bringing the Inuktitut alphabet with them.

The Alaskan Yupik and Inupiat (who additionally developed their own syllabary) and the Siberian Yupik also adopted Latin alphabets.

Qaniujaaqpait

Most Inuktitut in Nunavut and Nunavik is written using a scheme called Шаблон:Lang or Inuktitut syllabics, based on Canadian Aboriginal syllabics.

In the 1860s, missionaries imported this system of Qaniujaaqpait, which they had developed in their efforts to convert the Cree to Christianity, to the Eastern Canadian Inuit. The Netsilik Inuit in Kugaaruk and north Baffin Island adopted Шаблон:Lang by the 1920s.

In September 2019, a unified orthography called Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait, based on the Latin alphabet without diacritics, was adopted for all varieties of Inuktitut by the national organization Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, after eight years of work. It was developed by Inuit to be used by speakers of any dialect from any region, and can be typed on electronic devices without specialized keyboard layouts. It does not replace syllabics, and people from the regions are not required to stop using their familiar writing systems. Implementation plans are to be established for each region. It includes letters such as ff, ch, and rh, the sounds for which exist in some dialects but do not have standard equivalents in syllabics. It establishes a standard alphabet but not spelling or grammar rules. Long vowels are written by doubling the vowel (e.g., aa, ii, uu). The apostrophe represents a glottal stop when after a vowel (e.g., Шаблон:Lang), or separates an n from an ng (e.g., Шаблон:Lang) or an r from an rh (e.g., Шаблон:Lang).

Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait

IPA	Consonant	a	i	u
p	p	pa	pi	pu
t	t	ta	ti	tu
k	k	ka	ki	ku
q	q	qa	qi	qu
s	s	sa	si	su
ɬ	hl	hla	hli	hlu
ʂ	shr	shra	shri	shru
h	h	ha	hi	hu
v	v	va	vi	vu
l	l	la	li	lu
ɟ	rh	rha	rhi	rhu
j	j	ja	ji	ju
g	g	ga	gi	gu
ʁ	r	ra	ri	ru
m	m	ma	mi	mu
n	n	na	ni	nu
ŋ	ng	nga	ngi	ngu
ŋŋ	nng	nnga	nngi	nngu
ʔ	Шаблон:Saltillo	aШаблон:Saltillo	iШаблон:Saltillo	uШаблон:Saltillo

Файл:Inuktitut.svg

The syllabary used to write Inuktitut (Шаблон:Lang). The extra characters with the dots represent long vowels; in the Latin transcription, the vowel would be doubled.

In April 2012, with the completion of the Old Testament, the first complete Bible in Inuktitut, translated by native speakers, was published.

Noted literature in Inuktitut has included the novels Harpoon of the Hunter by Markoosie Patsauq, and Шаблон:Lang by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk.

The Canadian syllabary

The 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. Inuit in Alaska, Inuvialuit, Inuinnaqtun speakers, and Inuit in Greenland and Labrador use Latin alphabets.

Though conventionally called a syllabary, the writing system has been classified by some observers as an abugida, since syllables starting with the same consonant have related glyphs rather than unrelated ones.

All of the characters needed for the Inuktitut syllabary are available in the Unicode block Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. The territorial government of Nunavut, Canada, has developed TrueType fonts called Шаблон:Lang (ᐱᒋᐊᕐᓂᖅ Шаблон:IPA-iku), Шаблон:Lang (ᐅᖃᒻᒪᖅ Шаблон:IPA-iku), andШаблон:Lang (ᐅᕓᒥᐊ Шаблон:IPA-iku) for computer displays. They were designed by Vancouver-based Tiro Typeworks. Apple Macintosh computers include an Inuktitut IME (Input Method Editor) as part of keyboard language options. Linux distributions provide locale and language support for Inupiaq, Kalaallisut and Inuktitut.

Braille

Шаблон:Main In 2012 Tamara Kearney, Manager of Braille Research and Development at the Commonwealth Braille and Talking Book Cooperative, developed a Braille code for the Inuktitut language syllabics. This code is based on representing the syllabics' orientation. Machine translation from Unicode UTF-8 and UTF-16 can be performed using the liblouis Braille translation system which includes an Inuktitut Braille translation table. The book Шаблон:Lang (The Orphan and the Polar Bear) became the first work ever translated into Inuktitut Braille, and a copy is held by the Nunavut Territorial Library at Baker Lake, Nunavut.

See also

• Indigenous Languages of the Americas
• Inuit Languages
• Thule people

Bibliography

• Шаблон:Cite web
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• Шаблон:Cite web Шаблон:Small, ed: Dirmid R. F. Collis. Шаблон:ISBN.

Although as many of the examples as possible are novel or extracted from Inuktitut texts, some of the examples in this article are drawn from Introductory Inuktitut and Inuktitut Linguistics for Technocrats. Шаблон:Refend

Further reading

• Allen, Shanley. Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut. Language acquisition & language disorders, v. 13. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub, 1996. Шаблон:ISBN
• Balt, Peter. Inuktitut Affixes. Rankin Inlet? N.W.T.: s.n, 1978.
• Fortescue, Michael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates – second edition. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2011. Шаблон:ISBN.
• Kalmar, Ivan. Case and Context in Inuktitut (Eskimo). Mercury series. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1979.
• Nowak, Elke. Transforming the Images Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut (Eskimo). Empirical approaches to language typology, 15. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Шаблон:ISBN
• Schneider, Lucien. Ulirnaisigutiit An Inuktitut–English Dictionary of Northern Québec, Labrador, and Eastern Arctic Dialects (with an English-Inuktitut Index). Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1985.
• Spalding, Alex, and Thomas Kusugaq. Inuktitut A Multi-Dialectal Outline Dictionary (with an Aivilingmiutaq Base). Iqaluit, NT: Nunavut Arctic College, 1998. Шаблон:ISBN
• Swift, Mary D. Time in Child Inuktitut A Developmental Study of an Eskimo–Aleut Language. Studies on language acquisition, 24. Berlin: M. de Gruyter, 2004. Шаблон:ISBN
• Thibert, Arthur. Eskimo–English, English–Eskimo Dictionary = Inuktitut–English, English–Inuktitut Dictionary. Ottawa: Laurier Books, 1997. Шаблон:ISBN

External links

Dictionaries and lexica

• Шаблон:Cite web Шаблон:Small

Webpages

• A Brief History of Inuktitut Writing Culture
• Inuktitut Syllabarium (Languagegeek)
• Our Language, Our Selves Шаблон:Webarchive
• Government of Nunavut font download
• Inuktitut-friendly website hosting and development
• Tusaalanga ("Let me hear it"), a website with Inuktitut online lessons with sound files

Utilities

• NANIVARA – Inuktitut Search Engine. – NANIVARA means "I've found it!" in Inuktitut.