Aivilik dialect

Aivilik
Aivilingmiutut
Native to	Canada
Region	Aivilik, Nunavut
Ethnicity	Aivilingmiut
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Inuit (variously considered Inuvialuk or Inuktitut) Aivilik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist list	`ike-aiv`
Glottolog	None
Inuit dialects. Aivilik is the dark blue to the west of Hudson Bay.

Aivilik, also known as Aivilingmiutut, Aivillirmiut, and Kangiqłniq, is a Canadian dialect of the Inuit language spoken along the northwestern shores of Hudson Bay in Nunavut. The governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories generally consider it to be a dialect of Inuktitut, due to its location in Nunavut, as do some linguists,^[1] but it is instead sometimes classified as a dialect of Inuvialuk.^[2] However, Inuktitut and Inuvialuk form a dialect continuum with few sharp boundaries.

References

↑ Goddard (1996) The Classification of the Native Languages of North America", Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 17:4–8
↑ Languages of Canada, Ethnologue, ed. 17

Eskimo–Aleut languages and dialects

Aleut	Aleut

Inuit¹	Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktun Inuinnaqtun (disputed) Kangiryuarmiutun Inuktitut North Baffin (disputed) Inuttitut Inupiaq (Iñupiaq Braille) Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Inuvialuktun Aivilik Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik North Baffin (disputed) Siglitun Utkuhiksalik

Yupik	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik²

See also	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo-Aleut Inuktitut syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Yugtun script

Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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