| Natchilingmiutut | |
| Nativename: | ᓇᑦᕠᓕᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ |
| States: | Canada |
| Region: | Western Nunavut |
| Ethnicity: | Netsilik Inuit |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Eskimo-Aleut |
| Fam2: | Eskimo |
| Fam3: | Inuit |
| Fam4: | Inuvialuktun |
| Ancestor: | Proto-Eskimo–Aleut |
| Ancestor2: | Proto-Eskimo |
| Ancestor3: | Proto-Inuit |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | nets1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Natsilingmiutut |
| Map: | Inuktitut dialect map.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Inuit dialects. (Broader) Netsilik is the dark green in the centre. |
| Map2: | Lang Status 80-VU.svg |
| Notice: | IPA |
Natchilingmiutut (ᓇᑦᕠᓕᖕᒥᐅᑐᑦ),[1] [2] Netsilik, Natsilik, Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut,[3] Nattilingmiutut,[4] or Nattiliŋmiutut[5] is an Inuit language variety spoken in western Nunavut, Canada, by Netsilik Inuit.
('people from Natchilik') came from 'seal' + postbase 'place with something' + postbase 'inhabitants of'.
Natsilik dialect has the special letters:, used by some Nattiliŋmiut speakers.[6]
š pronounced as /[ʂ]/ – sounds a bit like English "shr" and is distinct from both the s sound that is used in words borrowed from English and the more common h sound.
'Gjoa Haven'
'about'
'ground squirrel, marmot'
New encodings in Unicode were proposed for the Inuktitut syllabics corresponding to š and h.[7] These 12 syllabic characters for Nattilingmiutut were included in version 14.0 of the Unicode Standard on 14 September 2021, are now formally part of the Standard and are stable to use for digital text exchange. However, updates to system level syllabics fonts and keyboards to access the characters are underway and forthcoming.
ř pronounced as /[ɟ]/ (in Inuktitut syllabics) – sounds like an English (retroflex) r. It is distinct from the r sound used by other dialects, which is closer to the r pronounced as /[ʁ]/ sound made in French at the back of the throat.
'eye' (cf. Inuktitut ᐃᔨ iji)
'bearded seal' (cf. Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ ugjuq)
's/he replies, answers' (cf. Inuktitut ᑭᐅᔪᖅ kiujuq)
's/he asks' (cf. Inuktitut ᐊᐱᕆᔪᖅ apirijuq)
pronounced as /ŋ/ – A small number of Inuktitut-speakers use this character instead of ng. The use of ng is deceiving because it makes use of two letters to represent what is a single sound. In syllabics this sound is represented by a single character . Using this letter also makes the distinction between the sequence pronounced as /[nŋ]/ and long pronounced as /[ŋː]/ clearer, the first being spelled nŋ and the latter ŋŋ . In eastern varieties of Inuktitut which do not have the sequence pronounced as /[nŋ]/, long pronounced as /[ŋː]/ is spelled nng rather than ngng . When the letter ŋ is not used, the distinction may be made by spelling pronounced as /[nŋ]/ n'ng and pronounced as /[ŋː]/ nng.
'lemming'
'mountain'
| Inuinnaqtun | Nattiliŋmiut | Kivallirmiut | Aggurmiut (North Baffin) | Uqqurmiut (South Baffin) | Kalaallisut | meaning | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Inuktitut: ᓂᕆᔪᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᓂᕆᖪᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓂᕆᔪᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓂᕆᔪᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓂᕆᔪᖅ|label=none | s/he eats | ||
(Inuktitut: ᐃᓱᒪᔪᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᐃᓱᒪᖪᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐃᓱᒪᔪᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐃᓱᒪᔪᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐃᓱᒪᔪᖅ|label=none | s/he thinks | ||
(Inuktitut: ᐱᖓᓱᑦ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᐱᖓᓱᑦ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐱᖓᓱᑦ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐱᖓᓱᑦ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐱᖓᓱᑦ|label=none | three | ||
(Inuktitut: ᐊᒃᓱᓈᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᐊᒃᖢᓈᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐊᒃᖢᓈᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐊᒃᖢᓈᖅ|label=none | , Inuktitut: ᐊᑦᓱᓈᖅ, ᐊᑦᑐᓈᖅ|label=none | rope | ||
(Inuktitut: ᐅᖅᓱᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᐅᖅᓱᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐅᖅᓱᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐅᖅᓱᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐅᖅᓱᖅ|label=none | fat, blubber | ||
(Inuktitut: ᖁᐊᓇ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᖁᔭᓇᖅᑯᑎᑦ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᒪ'ᓇ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᒃ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓇᑯᕐᒦᒃ|label=none | thank you | ||
(Inuktitut: ᐃᒪᓐᓇᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᐄᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓇᐅᒃ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐋᒃᑲ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐋᒡᒐ|label=none | no | ||
(Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ|label=none | sun | ||
(Inuktitut: ᐅᑉᓛᖅ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᐅᑉᓛᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐅᑉᓛᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐅᓪᓛᖅ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᐅᓪᓛᖅ|label=none | morning | ||
(Inuktitut: ᖃᑉᓗ|label=none) | Inuktitut: ᖃᑉᓗ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᖃᑉᓗ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗ|label=none | Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗ|label=none | eyebrow |