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Uummarmiutun is the variant of Inuit language spoken by the Uummarmiut, part of the Inuvialuit, who live mainly in the communities of Inuvik and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
This dialect is essentially the same as Alaskan Inupiatun, and is present in Canada because of migration from Alaska in the 1910s, reoccupying traditionally Siglit Inuit lands abandoned during the devastating disease outbreaks of the previous century.1
Because Inuvik and Aklavik are ethnically mixed communities where English is the near exclusive language of communication, few young people speak Uummarmiutun and the language is very endangered. It is one of the three dialects of Inuit language grouped together under the label Inuvialuktun.
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Uummarmiutun grammar
Aanamiguuq uqauhia itqaq&ugu aakami mitqutaan iraagun ihiqtuq ihiqamiguuq aahin, aakanga killaiyaurarniqhuaq iknirvium qaningani huvluaqturvianik naniqaqhuni. Taimmaguuq haniraanun aquvittuq qiqitlugu, qiqihialiqhuni.
translate:
'Remembering, it is said, the word of his grandmother, he enters through the eye if his mother's needle. When he has entered, it is said, again, his mother looked as if she was mending the clothes near the stove, having as a lamp the place where it was blowing (o.e, the stove's open door). Then it is said, he sits down beside her because he was freezing, because he was beginning to freeze.'
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Further reading
- Lowe, Ronald. Uummarmiut Uqalungiha Mumikhitchirutingit = Basic Uummarmiut Eskimo Dictionary. Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada: Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement, 1984. ISBN 0969159714
- Lowe, Ronald. Basic Uummarmiut Eskimo Grammar = Uummarmiut Uqalungiha Ilihaur̂r̂utikr̂angit. C.O.P.E, 5. Inuvik, N.W.T.: Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement, 1985. ISBN 0969159749
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