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Kivalliq dialect

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Kivalliq
Caribou
Kivallirmiutut
Native toCanada
Regioncoastal Kivalliq Region, Nunavut
Eskaleut
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologcari1277
Inuit dialects. Kivalliq is the lighter green to the west of Hudson Bay.

Kivalliq, also known as Kivallirmiutut, Caribou Eskimo, or formerly as Keewatin, 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, but linguists generally classify it as a dialect of Inuvialuk.[1][2][3] However, Inuktitut and Inuvialuk form a dialect continuum with few sharp boundaries.

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