Inuktitut language

found: Random House(Inuktitut, a dialect of Inuit, spoken in the Canadian Arctic)

found: Oxford English dictionary web site, Feb. 18, 2020Inuktitut (The language of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic)

found: Ethnologue, via WWW, Feb. 18, 2020(Inuktitut; a macrolanguage of Canada; includes: Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun)

found: Canadian encyclopedia web site, Feb. 18, 2020:Inuktitut (an Indigenous language in North America spoken in the Canadian Arctic; part of a larger Inuit language continuum stretching from Alaska to Greenland; Non-Inuit typically refer to the language as Inuktitut, while the speakers themselves have different names for the language in their own dialects: Inuttitut in Nunavik (Northern Quebec), Inuttut in Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador), Inuktitut in much of Nunavut; considered a dialect group within the Inuit language, with subdialects including North and South Baffin, Labrador, Nunavik, Aivilik, Kivalliq and Natsilingmiutut; uses a writing system called syllabics and is also written in the Roman alphabet (which is the exclusive writing system used in Labrador and parts of Western Nunavut))

found: Stern, P. R. Historical dictionary of the Inuit, 2013:Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit; linguists usually label it a single language distinct from the Yupik language but within the same Eskaleut language family; diverged from Yupik around AD 1000; as many as 16 regional dialects continue to exist)

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