Meanings
- A language or dialect of Inuktitut spoken by some Inuit.
The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is launching a language revitalization project on Inuinnaqtun, a dialect of the Inuit language.
2021 July 7, Meral Jamal, “Kitikmeot Heritage Society launches Inuinnaqtun revitalization project”, in CBC News2 more examples
He is Canadian in other ways, too: When he discovers that his Inuinnaqtun interpreter, a boy named Angituk McAndrew, is in fact a warm-hearted and good-cooking girl who has a thing for him, he resists the temptation for some fun under the skins with near super-human restraint. It's not that he's a married man, either. It just wouldn't be right.
2010 November 29, Andrew Pyper, “Coppermine, by Keith Ross Leckie”, in The Globe and MailIn the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.
2025, Marie-Ève Hudon, Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories, Ottawa, Canada: Library of Parliament, page 30
Cite this entry
Inuinnaqtun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Inuinnaqtun
“Inuinnaqtun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Inuinnaqtun. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Inuinnaqtun,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Inuinnaqtun.
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