Inuktitut
RegionCanada (Arctic)
FamilyInuit-Yupik-Unangan
Speakers40,000 speakers
ScriptCanadian Syllabics
TypeAbugida
About Inuktitut
An Inuit language of eastern Canada. Polysynthetic, packing whole sentences into single long words. Written in syllabics adapted from the script made for Cree in 1840. Its many sea ice terms encode precise travel knowledge. One of the healthiest indigenous languages of the Arctic.