- Netsilik dialect
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Natsilik Nattiliŋmiutut Spoken in Canada Region North America Ethnicity Netsilik Inuit Language family Eskimo–Aleut- Eskimo
- Inuit
- Inuvialuktun
- Natsilik
- Inuvialuktun
- Inuit
Language codes ISO 639-3 – Linguist List ikt-net 
Inuit dialects. (Broader) Netsilik is the dark green in the center.This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Natsilik, Netsilik,[1] Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut ,[2] Nattilingmiutut ,[3] Nattiliŋmiutut[4] is a dialect of Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuit or Inuktitut) language once spoken in the Nattilik area of Nunavut, Canada by Netsilik Inuit people.
Natsilingmiut ( ᓇᑦᓯᓕᖕᒥᐅᑦ 'people from Natsilik') came from natsik “seal” + -lik “place with something” + -miut “inhabitants of” .
Contents
Classification
- Inuvialuktun language: There are three main dialect divisions:[5]
- Siglitun dialect
- Inuinnaqtun dialect
- Natsilingmiutut dialect
- Natsilik subdialect or Natsilik (also Netsilik) proper
- Arviligjuaq subdialect
- Utkuhiksalik subdialect
Special letters
Natsilik dialect have special letters: š ř ŋ
These special characters are used by some Nattiliŋmiut speakers to document their dialect.[6]
š – sounds like ‘shr’ and is distinct from both the s sound that is used in words borrowed from English and the more common h sound.
- Uqšuqtuuq Gjoa Haven
- hikšik ground squirrel, marmot
- mikšaanut about
ř [ɉ] (in Inuktitut syllabics ᖬ řa ᖨ ři ᖪ řu ᖭ řaa ᖩ řii ᖫ řuu) – sounds like an English (retroflex) r. It is distinct from the r sound used by other dialects, which is closer to the r [ʁ] sound made in French at the back of the throat.
- ᐃᖨ iři eye (cf. Inuktitut ᐃᔨ iji)
- ᐅᒡᖪᒃ ugřuk bearded seal (cf. Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ ugjuq)
- ᑭᐅᖪᖅ kiuřuq s/he replies, answers (cf. Inuktitut ᑭᐅᔪᖅ kiujuq)
- ᐊᐱᕆᖪᖅ apiriřuq s/he asks (cf. Inuktitut ᐊᐱᕆᔪᖅ apirijuq)
ŋ – A small number of Inuktitut speakers use this character instead of ng. The use of ng is a little deceiving because it makes use of two letters to represent what is actually a single sound. In syllabics this sound is represented by a single character ᖕ.
- avinŋuaq lemming
- kiŋŋaq mountain
Comparison
Inuinnaqtun Nattiliŋmiut Kivallirmiut Aggurmiut
(North Baffin)Uqqurmiut
(South Baffin)meaning niriyuq niriřuq nirijuq s/he eats ihumayuq ihumařuq ihumajuq isumajuq isumajuq s/he thinks pingahut piŋahut pingahut pingasut pingasut knife akhunaaq akłunaaq akłunaaq akłunaaq atsunaaq rope quana qujanaqqutit ma’na qujannamiik nakurmiik thank you imannaq iiq nauk aakka aagga no hiqiniq hiqiniq hiqiniq siqiniq siqiniq sun ublaaq ublaaq ublaaq ullaaq ullaaq morning qablu qablu qablu qallu qallu eyebrow References
- ^ http://multitree.org/codes/ikt-net
- ^ Preserving Inuit Dialects in Nunavut, January 2005
- ^ Teacher devises special syllabics for Nattilingmiutut
- ^ http://www.tusaalanga.ca
- ^ "Iñuvialuktun/Inuvialuktun/Inuinnaqtun". languagegeek.com. http://www.languagegeek.com/inu/inuvialuktun.html. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
- ^ Why does Nattiliŋmiut have special letters?
Eskimo-Aleut languages and dialects Italics indicate extinct languages Aleut Inuit* Greenlandic Tunumiit, InuktunInuinnaqtun Inuktitut Nunatsiavummiutut, InuttitutInupiaq Inuvialuktun Kangiryuarmiutun, Natsilik, Utkuhiksalik, SiglitunYupik Alutiiq Central Alaskan Naukan Sirenik** See also; Proto-Eskimo, Proto-Eskimo-Aleut, Inuktitut writing*The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects, but while people can understand the dialects closest to them, it becomes harder the further away they are.**Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate Eskimo branch, and not under Yupik.Categories:- Languages with Linglist but no iso3 codes
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