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Name: Eastern Canadian Inuktitut Type: Language Alternate Names: Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian; Eastern Canadian "Eskimo"; "Eastern Arctic Eskimo"; Inuit; Eskimo; Inupiat; Canadian Eskimo; Eastern Canadian Eskimo; Eastern Canadian Inuit; Canadian Inuit; Central-Northern; Inuktitut; Eastern Canadian Spoken in: Canada, Greenland Number of speakers: 14,000 (1991 L. Kaplan). All Inuktitut varieties 32,775. Ethnic population: 17,500 (1991 L. Kaplan) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 26890 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 14000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: ike Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Subgroup: Eastern Eskimo; Inuit; Inuit-Inupiaq; Inupiaq; Iñupiaq-Inuktitut (inui) Child Dialect Groups: Arctic Quebec (ike-arq) North Baffin (ike-nba) South Baffin (ike-sba) Child Dialects: Repulse Bay; Naujat; Southampton (ike-rep) Rigolet; Tikiraqsuarusik (ike-rig) Coral Harbour; Sagliq (ike-cor) Labrador; Labrador Eskimo; Inuktitut (Quebec-Labrador) (ike-lab) Chesterfield Inlet; Igluliagaarjuk (ike-che) Aivilik; Kangiqłniq; Aivillirmiut (ike-aiv) Brief Description: "Inuktitut is the collective name for the dialects of Inuit (Eastern Eskimo) spoken on the northern coast of Canada, from the Mackenzie Delta in the west to Labrador in the east. (It is also sometimes used for Eastern Eskimo dialects in general, synonymous with Inuit.) The dialects of Western Canadian Inuktitut are usually distinguished from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, the boundary falling between the Central Arctic coast and Baffin Island, but there is no sharp discontinuity. All of the Inuktitut speakers of the newly formed territory of Nunavut, which encompasses dialects belonging to both the Western and Eastern divisions, can understand one another's speech. The Inuktitut population in Canada is about 31,000, a high proportion being speakers. In the 1996 Canadian census 26,960 people indicated Inuktitut was their first language, 18,495 of them in the Northwest Territories (and Nunavut) and 7,685 in Quebec." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed