Kangiryuarmiut dialect
The Kangiryuarmiut dialect, or Kangiryuarmiutun (sometimes Kangirjuarmiut(un)), is the name of the dialect of Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by Kangiryuarmiut people of Copper Inuit. The dialect is part of the Inuvialuktun language. The people of Ulukhaktok prefer to think of it as Inuinnaqtun and it is essentially the same.
In is derived from Kangiryuar (meaning "the big bay"), and named for the people that lived there, the Kangiryuarmiut, which is known by its English name Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island. Victoria Island is the ancestral home of the Copper Inuit.
Vocabulary comparison
The comparison of some animal names in the Siglitun dialect of Inuvialuktun language and Kangiryuarmiutun subdialect of Inuinnaqtun dialect of Inuvialuktun language:[1]
See also
References
- ^ Olokhaktomiut Community Conservation Plan, July 2008
- ^ Inuinnaqtun to English, Nunavut Arctic College
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