Kangiryuarmiutun

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Kangiryuarmiutun
Spoken in	Canada
Region	North America
Total speakers	—
Language family	Eskimo-Aleut Eskimo Inuit Inuvialuktun Kangiryuarmiutun
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–
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Kangiryuarmiutun (sometimes Kangirjuarmiutun) is the name of the dialect of Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. 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") which is known by its English name Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island.

[edit] See also

• Siglitun
• Uummarmiutun

[edit] External links

• Inuvaluit Region - Languages

v • d • e Eskimo-Aleut languages and dialects Italics indicate extinct languages Aleut Aleut Inuit* Greenlandic Eastern Greenlandic, Inuktun Inuinnaqtun   Inuktitut Nunatsiavummiutut, Inuttitut Inupiaq          Inuvialuktun Kangiryuarmiutun, Natsilingmiutut, Siglitun, Uummarmiutun Yupik Alutiiq   Central Alaskan Yugtun Central Siberian Qawiaraq Naukan   Sirenik**   See also; Proto-Eskimo, Proto-Eskimo-Aleut, Inuktitut writing *The Inuit language is a continuum of dialects, but while people can understand the dialects closest to them, it becomes harder the further away they are. **Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate Eskimo branch, and not under Yupik.

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