Inuktun

Inuktun
Inuktun
Polar Inuit
avanersuarmiutut
Native to	Greenland; Kingdom of Denmark
Region	Avanersuaq
Ethnicity	Inughuit
Native speakers	(800–1,000 cited 1995)
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Inuit (variously classified as Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun or Inuinnaqtun) Inuktun; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit ; ;
Official status
Official language in	Greenland
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	pola1254 Polar Eskimo
	Inuit dialects. Inuktun is the brown area ("Avanersuaq") in the northwest of Greenland.
	North Greenlandic is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Inuktun (English: Polar Inuit, Greenlandic: avanersuarmiutut, Danish: nordgrønlandsk, polarinuitisk, thulesproget) is the language of approximately 1,000 indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland.

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