The Inuit languages are a closely related group of Native American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador. The related Yupik languages are spoken in western and southern Alaska and in the far east of Russia, but are severely endangered in Russia today and spoken only in a few villages on the Chukchi Peninsula. The Inuit live primarily in three countries: Greenland, Canada (specifically in the Nunatsiavut region of Labrador, the Nunavik region of Quebec, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories), and the United States (specifically the coast of Alaska).
The total population of Inuit speaking their traditional languages is difficult to assess with precision, since most counts rely on self-reported census data that may not accurately reflect usage or competence. Greenland census estimates place the number of speakers of varieties of Inuit there at roughly 50,000, while Canadian estimates are at roughly 35,000. These two countries count the bulk of speakers of Inuit language variants, although about 7,500 Alaskans speak varieties of Inuit out of a population of over 13,000 Inuit.
In the United States and Canada the term "Eskimo" was commonly used to describe the Inuit, and Alaska's Yupik and Inupiat. "Inuit" is not accepted as a term for the Yupik, and "Eskimo" is the only term that includes Yupik, Iñupiat and Inuit. However, Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Greenland view "Eskimo" as pejorative, and "Inuit" has become more common. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 named the "Inuit" as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are not included under either the First Nations or the Métis.
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Show Caption. Hide Caption ...Snowflakes are nature’s artwork ... 2 ... Snow has hundreds of different names. Snow has around 50 names in Inuit languages, and researchers have found that snow has up to 421 different names in Scotland, BBCEarth writes ... 5.
OTTAWA — The dream to open an Inuit-led university is one step closer to realization, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami said, after a $50 million investment from the Mastercard Foundation.
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Photo via Vancouver Shipyards ...Canada’s newest and most modern research vessel is named after a well-respected elder from Nunavik, who was a renowned promoter of Inuit language and culture ... Photo via Vancouver Shipyards A year of ship launches ... .
Aki Matilda Hogh-Dam caused a stir when she took the podium in the Folketing and spoke Greenlandic ... The Inuit, the name of the ethnic group she belonged to, member of the social democrat Siumut party, is fluent in Danish ... She said she would not ... .
What's in a name? A lot, it turns out ... Spiritual and religious beliefs can play an important role in how climate change is understood and even named ... an Inuit language spoken in Canada, is "sila."
Fishing and hunting are survival, but they are for us attached to certain spiritual names of the animals … Everyone here has to survive through hunting and fishing, but that doesn’t make them Inuit... We named it.
The ship, named after a NunavikElder renowned for his championing of the Inuit language and culture, can also carry out search and rescue operations and environmental response when needed ... “There are all sorts of discoveries to be made.”.
The vessels’ names were chosen in collaboration with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami for their cultural significance to Inuit ...The island is an important geographical landmark in Ungava Bay that has been used by Inuit of Nunavik for centuries.
This is the town of Unalaska, on the island of the same name ... These two Inuit children were part of the exploration of the Kobuk River in northern Alaska.The Kobuk River's Inuit name, Kuuvak, means "great river.".
Advertisement. Urban folklore has it that the Inuit language has dozens of names for ice and snow, reflecting their ubiquity in the lives of its speakers ...Signatures of several of these have been found beyond Earth. ... ImageCredit ... M. K ... .
