| Uummarmiutun | |
|---|---|
| Uummaġmiutun | |
| Pronunciation | [uːm.mɑʁ.mi.u.tun] |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | Northwest Territories |
| Ethnicity | Uummarmiut |
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Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
 Inuit dialects. Uummarmiut is the orange within Canada. | |
Uummarmiutun (Inupiaq:[uːm.mɑʁ.mi.u.tun]),Uummaġmiutun orCanadian Iñupiaq is the variant ofIñupiaq (orInuvialuktun) spoken by theUummarmiut, part of theInuvialuit, who live mainly in the communities ofInuvik andAklavik in theNorthwest Territories of Canada.[1]
This dialect is essentially the same as that spoken by theInupiat ofAlaska, and is present in Canada because of migration from Alaska in the 1910s, reoccupying traditionallySiglitInuit lands abandoned during the devastating disease outbreaks of the previous century.[2]
Because Inuvik and Aklavik are ethnically mixed communities where English is the near-exclusive language of communication, few young people speak Uummarmiutun and the language is very endangered.
It is one of the three dialects –Kangiryuarmiutun andSiglitun are the other two – of theInuit language grouped together under the labelInuvialuktun.
Uummartmiutun has thirty-onephonemes, six of which arevowels, three short and three long, five of which arediphthongs, the rest beingconsonants:
A comparison of some animal names in the two dialects of Iñupiatun.
The similarity in names is sometimes obscured by the different spelling conventions used in Alaska and Canada.
| Alaskan Iñupiaq[3] | Canadian Iñupiaq[4] | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Uummaġmiutun | Uummarmiutun | Uummarmiut dialect |
| siksrik | hikr̂ik/sikr̂ik | ground squirrel |
| qugruk | qugr̂uk | tundra swan |
| aaġlu | arlu | killer whale |
| amaġuq | amaruq | gray wolf |
| isuŋŋaġluk | ihun’ngaq | Pomarine jaeger |
| kaŋuq | kanguq | snow goose |
| qunŋiq | qun’ngiq | reindeer[a][clarification needed] |
| tiġiganniaq | tiriganiaq | Arctic fox |
| umiŋmak | umingmak | muskox |
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