Natsilik, Netsilik, Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut
, Nattilingmiutut
, Nattiliŋmiutut is a dialect of Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuit or Inuktitut) language once spoken in the Nattilik

Nattilik

Nattilik is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Canada.The riding consists of the communities of Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak....

 area of Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 by Netsilik Inuit

Netsilik Inuit

The Netsilik Inuit live predominantly in the communities of Kugaaruk and Gjoa Haven of the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and to a smaller extent in Taloyoak and the north Qikiqtaaluk Region...

 people.

Natsilingmiut ( ᓇᑦᓯᓕᖕᒥᐅᑦ 'people from Natsilik') came from natsik “seal” + -lik “place with something” + -miut “inhabitants of” .

Classification

• Inuvialuktun language: There are three main dialect divisions:
  • Siglitun dialect
  • Inuinnaqtun dialect
  • Natsilingmiutut dialect
    • Natsilik subdialect or Natsilik (also Netsilik) proper
    • Arviligjuaq subdialect
    • Utkuhiksalik
      Utkuhiksalik dialect
      Utkuhiksalik, Utkuhikhalik, Utkuhikhaliq, Utkuhiksalingmiutitut, Utkuhiksalingmiutut, Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut, Gjoa Haven dialect is a sub-dialect of Natsilingmiutut dialect of Inuvialuktun language once spoken in the Utkuhiksalik area of Nunavut, and now spoken...
      
       subdialect

Special letters

Natsilik dialect have special letters: š ř ŋ

These special characters are used by some Nattiliŋmiut speakers to document their dialect.

š

Š

The grapheme Š, š is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with , but the lowercase š is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet.For use in computer...

– sounds like ‘shr’ and is distinct from both the s sound that is used in words borrowed from English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and the more common h sound.

Uqšuqtuuq Gjoa Haven

hikšik ground squirrel, marmot

mikšaanut about

ř

R

R is the eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The original Semitic letter may have been inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for tp, "head". It was used for by Semites because in their language, the word for "head" was rêš . It developed into Greek Ρ and Latin R...

[ɉ] (in Inuktitut syllabics

Inuktitut syllabics

Inuktitut syllabics is a writing system used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec...

 ᖬ řa ᖨ ři ᖪ řu ᖭ řaa ᖩ řii ᖫ řuu) – sounds like an English (retroflex) r. It is distinct from the r sound used by other dialects, which is closer to the r [ʁ] sound made in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 at the back of the throat.

ᐃᖨ iři eye (cf. Inuktitut ᐃᔨ iji)

ᐅᒡᖪᒃ ugřuk bearded seal (cf. Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ ugjuq)

ᑭᐅᖪᖅ kiuřuq s/he replies, answers (cf. Inuktitut ᑭᐅᔪᖅ kiujuq)

ᐊᐱᕆᖪᖅ apiriřuq s/he asks (cf. Inuktitut ᐊᐱᕆᔪᖅ apirijuq)

ŋ – A small number of Inuktitut speakers use this character instead of ng. The use of ng is a little deceiving because it makes use of two letters to represent what is actually a single sound. In syllabics this sound is represented by a single character ᖕ.

avinŋuaq lemming

kiŋŋaq mountain

Comparison

Inuinnaqtun	Nattiliŋmiut	Kivallirmiut	Aggurmiut (North Baffin)	Uqqurmiut (South Baffin)	meaning
niriyuq	niriřuq		nirijuq		s/he eats
ihumayuq	ihumařuq	ihumajuq	isumajuq	isumajuq	s/he thinks
pingahut	piŋahut	pingahut	pingasut	pingasut	knife
akhunaaq	akłunaaq	akłunaaq	akłunaaq	atsunaaq	rope
quana	qujanaqqutit	ma’na	qujannamiik	nakurmiik	thank you
imannaq	iiq	nauk	aakka	aagga	no
hiqiniq	hiqiniq	hiqiniq	siqiniq	siqiniq	sun
ublaaq	ublaaq	ublaaq	ullaaq	ullaaq	morning
qablu	qablu	qablu	qallu	qallu	eyebrow