North Baffin dialect explained

North Baffin
Also Known As:Iglulingmiut
Nativename:Qikiqtaaluk uannangani
States:Canada
Region:Nunavut
Speakers:?
Familycolor:Eskimo-Aleut
Fam2:Eskimo
Fam3:Inuit
Fam4:(variously considered Inuktitut or Inuvialuktun)
Ancestor:Proto-Eskimo–Aleut
Ancestor2:Proto-Eskimo
Ancestor3:Proto-Inuit
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:baff1240
Glottoname:all Baffin dialects
Glottorefname:North Baffin Inuktitut
Map:Inuktitut dialect map.svg
Mapcaption:Inuit dialects. North Baffin is the powder blue to the north of Hudson Bay.

The North Baffin dialect (Qikiqtaaluk uannangani or Iglulingmiut) of Inuktitut is spoken on the northern part of Baffin Island, at Igloolik and the adjacent part of the Melville Peninsula, and in other Inuit communities in the far north of Nunavut, like Resolute, Grise Fiord, Pond Inlet, Clyde River, and Arctic Bay.

The governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories generally consider it to be a dialect of Inuktitut, due to its location in Nunavut, as do some linguists,[1] but it is instead sometimes classified as a dialect of Inuvialuktun.[2] However, Inuktitut and Inuvialuktun form a dialect continuum with few sharp boundaries.

The North Baffin dialect is the spoken in the film .

Notes and References

  1. Discourse and Identity in the Baffin Region. Dorais. Louis-Jacques. Sammons. Susan. 2000. Arctic Anthropology. 37. 2. 92–110. 40316532 . JSTOR.
  2. Web site: Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20190415195536/https://www.ethnologue.com/map/CA___. 2019-04-15. Ethnologue. subscription.