Talk:Inuit languages

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Inuit language + Grammar

I think these articles give a partly false impression of unity among the inuit languages. At the very least the articles overstate the similarity between the languages and give too little space to describe the quite common view that they are not dialects of one "Inuit language" but rather many separate but closely related languages - in effect a dialect continuum.·Maunus·ƛ· 15:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription at tautirut?

The associated WikiProjects don't get much traffic, so thought is safer to ask here: this dictionary entry[1] shows the word for tautirut, an Inuit fiddle. Is there anyone familiar with this syllabary and the Unicode needed to add this native spelling to the lede of the article? Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:52, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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"I can't hear very well" / "Tusaatsiarunnanngittualuujunga"

This example sentence is exceptionally common and could to come with a polite mention Inuit speakers have some of the highest rates of hearing loss in the world - children in some studies have shown rates of middle ear damage approaching 54%.[2] 121.45.171.107 (talk) 17:44, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The link doesn't work and anything about hearing loss should be in the Inuit article and not here. I don't think that Tusaatsiarunnanngittualuujunga is very common but is in Inuit grammar. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 19:35, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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92 % of the words in the Nunavut Hansard appearing only once

What is the source for that claim? I've been trying to find it, but I've never found a valid source, only the claim itself (both English- and German-language Wikipedia) and people copypasting this claim into their own article. Огненный ангел (talk) 13:31, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Inuktut with Inuit languages

Inuktut says "Inuktut is the collective name for the Inuit languages." We don't typically have separate articles for separate names. (that's what wiktionary is for, although it doesn't have an entry for inuktut). I did see some comments in the talk page archives discussion about going around in circles with the name of this article. My guess is that Inuktut should be merged here but I'm not very familiar with the topic. Apocheir (talk) 02:26, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I've adjusted the first sentence as Inuktut and Inuit languages are not quite the same thing. Inuit languages covers all the dialects / languages spoken from Greeenland to Alaska. Inuktut covers only those spoken in Canada or Inuit Nunangat. From this article

The phrase "Inuit language" is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words. In Nunavut the government groups all dialects of Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun under the term Inuktut.

CambridgeBayWeather (#1 deranged), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:46, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support per nom. It just makes sense. Yuchitown (talk) 20:14, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I support it due to the shortness of the source article. RobotBlanket (talk) 14:10, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per NOTADICT, is the term 'Inuktut' notable enough for an article? — kwami (talk) 00:15, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, seems like it could fit fine into the nomenclature section of Inuit languages as it seems to me just to be specific usage in an area. Not sure if it is notable enough on its own. PersusjCP (talk) 06:24, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]