Kivalliq dialect
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| Kivalliq | |
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| Caribou | |
| Kivallirmiutut | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | coastal Kivalliq Region, Nunavut |
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Native speakers
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | cari1277[2] |
Inuit dialects. Kivalliq is the lighter green to the west of Hudson Bay.
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Kivalliq, also known as Kivallirmiutut, Caribou Eskimo, or formerly as Keewatin, is a Canadian dialect of the Inuit language spoken along the northwestern shores of Hudson Bay in Nunavut. The governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories generally consider it to be a dialect of Inuktitut, due to its location in Nunavut, but linguists generally classify it as a dialect of Inuvialuk.[3][4][5] However, Inuktitut and Inuvialuk form a dialect continuum with few sharp boundaries.
References[edit]
- ^ The sources for this article do not contain any information regarding the number of native speakers.
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Caribou Eskimo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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