Inuktitut is an Eskimo-Aleut language
spoken across the entire northern span of North America, forming what is called a linguistic
chain--each dialect is easily mutually intelligible with its neighbors, but not with dialects further away. For
practical purposes, linguistic chains are treated as a single language, and so the Alaskan dialects Inupiaq
and Inupiatun, the Eastern and Western Inuktitut languages of Canada, and Greenlandic are all classified
together. The Cree word "Eskimo" is
considered an offensive term by some Inuit today, but other Inuit people continue to use the two names
interchangeably.
American Indian culture index
Inuktitut Vocabulary
Kids' Stop: Inuktitut Language
