Eskimo-Aleut family
Inuktitut
c. 1300 CE – today Living
Inuktitut (c. 1300 CE – today) is a living Eskimo-Aleut language. Lineage: Proto-Eskimo-Aleut → Proto-Eskimo → Proto-Inuit → Inuktitut.
See Inuktitut on the interactive map- Speakers
- 40K (40,000)
- ISO 639-3
- iku
- Glottocode
- east2534
Eastern Canadian Inuit, spoken in Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut. Written in Inuktitut syllabics and Latin script.
Lineage
- Proto-Eskimo-Aleutc. 4,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
- Proto-Eskimoc. 500 BCE – 800 CE
- Proto-Inuitc. 1000 CE – 1300 CE
- Inuktitutc. 1300 CE – today
Sister languages 2
Also descended from Proto-Inuit.