Language: Inuktitut, Inuttitut & Inuttut

Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island
1 min readSep 27, 2017

Inuktitut is an Indigenous language spoken in the Canadian Arctic with approximately 34,000 speakers, located primarily in Nunavut and Québec.

It is called Inuttitut in Nunavik (Northern Québec), Inuttut in Nunatsiavut (Labrador) and Inuktitut in Nunavut.

It’s what is called a polysynthetic language, meaning that words are longer and more complex than English.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuktitut/

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Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island

Journalist, author of the Portia Adams Adventure series, Podcaster at Ada’s Sisters who teaches at Ryerson and the University of Toronto.