Inuit Languages and Dialects

Inuit Uqausiqatigiit

By Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher: Nunavut Arctic College
Paperback : 9781897568514, 270 pages, November 2017

Description

This new edition of wide-ranging work by renowned linguist Louis-Jacques Dorais is a study of the distribution and main characteristics
of the following dialects: the Eskaleut family, Aleut and the Yupik languages, Inuit dialects, Alaskan Inupiq, Western Canadian Inuktun,
Eastern Canadian Inuktitut (Kivalliq, Aivilik, North and South Baffin, Nunavik, and Labrador), and Greenlandic Kalaallisut. Dorais includes dialectology, language history, and present-day situations to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the
similarities and differences between Inuktitut dialects across northern North Amerca and Greenland.