Kangiryuarmiutun

Kangiryuarmiutun^{[pronunciation?]} (sometimes Kangirjuarmiut(un)) is a dialect of Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by the Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit group. The dialect is part of the Inuvialuktun language.^[1] The people of Ulukhaktok prefer to think of it as Inuinnaqtun and it is essentially the same.

Kangiryuarmiutun
Native to	Canada
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Inuit Inuvialuktun Kangiryuarmiutun
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	ikt-hol
Glottolog	None

It is derived from Kangiryuak (meaning "the big bay"), and named for the people that lived there, the Kangiryuarmiut, which is known by its English name Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island. Victoria Island is the ancestral home of the Copper Inuit.

Vocabulary comparison

The comparison of some animal names in the Siglitun and Kangiryuarmiutun subdialects of the Inuinnaqtun dialect of Inuvialuktun:^[2]

Siglitun	Kangiryuarmiutun	Inuinnaqtun[3]	meaning
qugyuk	kogyok	qugjuk	tundra swan
qilalugaq	kilalogak	qilalugaq	beluga whale
tatidjgaq	tatilgak	tatilgaq	sandhill crane
aqidjgiq	nikhaktok	aqilgivik	willow ptarmigan
isun’ngaq	enhongalhuk	ihunngaq	jaeger

See also

• Uummarmiutun