Inuktitut

Transliteration of Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot, “like the Inuit”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʊktɪtʊt/

Inuktitut

1. The language of the Inuit people.
   • 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 46:

     I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.

   • 2025, Marie-Ève Hudon, Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories‎^[1], Ottawa, Canada: Library of Parliament, page 30:

     In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Inuktitut terms

• ISO 639-1 code iu, ISO 639-3 code iku (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Inuktitut, iku ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

  Ethnologue entry for Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, ike ⁠

  Ethnologue entry for Western Canadian Inuktitut, ikt ⁠

Related languages:

• Ethnologue entry for Greenlandic Inuktitut, kal ⁠

• inuktitut, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot)

Literally, “like the Inuit”.

Inuktitut (syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ)

1. Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit people) Latin spelling of ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot)