The Inuit language branch became distinct and in only several hundred years spread across northern Alaska, Canada and into Greenland.

The Inuit of Greenland refer to themselves as " Greenlanders " and speak the Greenlandic language.

" However, even the Inuit people in Alaska refer to themselves as Inupiat ( the language is Inupiaq ) and do not typically use the term Inuit.

The Eskimo sub-family consists of the Inuit language and Yupik language sub-groups.

Greenlandic ( East Inuit language ), Danish, and English.

The Inuit language is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador.

The total population of Inuit speaking their traditional language is difficult to assess with precision, since most counts rely on self-reported census data that may not accurately reflect usage or competence.

These two countries count the bulk of speakers of Inuit language variants, although about 7, 500 Alaskans speak Inuit dialects out of a population of over 13, 000 Inuit.

So, the global population of speakers of Inuit language variants is on the order of over 90, 000 people.

The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages.

However, there are no clear criteria for breaking the Inuit language into specific member languages, since it forms a continuum of close dialects.

In Greenland the official form of Inuit language, and the official language of the state, is called Kalaallisut.

In Canada, the word Inuktitut is routinely used to refer to all Canadian variants of the Inuit traditional language, and it is under that name that it is recognised as one of the official languages of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Furthermore, Canadians – both Inuit and non-Inuit – sometimes use the word Inuktitut to refer to all of the Inuit language variants, including those of Alaska and Greenland.

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

The Inuit inhabit the Arctic and northern Bering Sea coasts of Alaska and Arctic coasts of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Labrador, and Greenland.

Canadian Inuit live primarily in Nunavut ( a territory of Canada ), Nunavik ( the northern part of Quebec ) and in Nunatsiavut ( the Inuit settlement region in Labrador ).

The Inuit live primarily in three countries: Greenland ( a constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark ), Canada ( specifically the Nunatsiavut region of Labrador, the Nunavik region of Quebec, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories ), and the United States ( specifically the state of Alaska ).

In northern Quebec and Nunavut, Inuit women are being educated to be midwives in their own communities.

The documentary follows the lives of an Inuit, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and trade in in northern Quebec, Canada.

Melanie McGrath, a writer, writes that, while living in Northern Quebec for the year of filming Nanook, Flaherty had an affair with his lead actress, the young Inuit woman who played Nanook's wife.

In grammar, the adjective inuit " Inuit " is invariable in France but, according to official recommendations in Quebec, has regular feminine and plural forms.

It particularly applied to those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

The word " Naskapi " ( meaning " people beyond the horizon ") first made an appearance in the 17th century and was subsequently applied to Innu groups beyond the reach of missionary influence, most notably those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

A pivotal event in the history of the Naskapis occurred in early 1975, when, after separate visits to Schefferville by Billy Diamond, Grand Chief, Grand Council of the Crees ( of Quebec ) (" GCCQ "), and Charlie Watt, President, Northern Quebec Inuit Association (" NQIA "), the Naskapis decided to become involved in the negotiations leading to the signature of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (" JBNQA ").

** Inuit land: found in Quebec

Bourassa initiated the James Bay hydroelectric project in 1971 that led to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement of 1975 with the Cree and Inuit inhabitants of the region.

Covering a land area of 443, 684. 71 km² ( 171, 307. 62 sq mi ) north of the 55th parallel, it is the homeland of the Inuit of Quebec.

Kangiqsualujjuaq (; also Kangirsualujjuaq ᑲᖏᕐᓱᐊᓗᔾᔪᐊᖅ ) is an Inuit village located on the east coast of Ungava Bay at the mouth of the George River, in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada.

In 1959, local Inuit established, on their own initiative, the first co-operative in Northern Quebec for the purpose of marketing Arctic char.

Category: Inuit communities in Quebec

Eight Inuit families from Inukjuak, Quebec ( on the Ungava Peninsula ) were relocated after being promised homes and game to hunt, but the relocated people discovered no buildings and very little familiar wildlife.

Additionally, there is wide-ranging debate about defence, monetary policy, currency, international-trade and relations after independence and whether a renewed federalism would give political recognition to the Quebec nation ( along with the other ' founding ' peoples, including Canadian First Nations, the Inuit, and the British ) could satisfy the historic disparities between these cultural " nations " and create a more cohesive and egalitarian Canada.

There has also been a host of arguments against sovereignty which claim that the movement ignores the fact that Quebec is, in its very essence, a state largely made up of multi-generational immigrants-and as such, a claim to state sovereignty ignores the fact that First Nations, existed with their own social orders and economies prior to the creation of Quebec, and that since the colonial era Francophone governments, as a part of assimilation and colonization, have at times chosen to strategically ignore, suppress, include, or appropriate the desires, cultures, and struggles of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in order to advance a eurocentric version of sovereignty.

First Air is wholly owned by the Inuit people of Quebec through the Makivik Corporation, who purchased the company in 1990.

Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.

In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.

However, the Inuit Circumpolar Council, as it is known today, uses both " Inuit " and " Eskimo " in its official documents.

In Canada and Greenland the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative and has fallen out of favour, largely supplanted by the term Inuit.

However, while Inuit describes all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, that is not true in Alaska and Siberia.

In Alaska the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term or even specifically used for Inupiat ( who technically are Inuit ).

The preferred term in Canada's Central Arctic is Inuinnaq, and in the eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit.

Because of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences between Yupik and Inuit peoples there is uncertainty as to the acceptance of any term encompassing all Yupik and Inuit people.

Thus, in Alaska, Eskimo is in common usage, and is the preferred term when speaking collectively of all Inupiat and Yupik people, or of all Inuit and Yupik people throughout the world.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.

The northernmost Yupik languages — Siberian Yupik and Naukanski Yupik — are linguistically only slightly closer to Inuit than is Alutiiq, which is the southernmost of the Yupik languages.

Although the grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically, and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.

While grammatical structures of Yupik and Inuit languages are similar, they have pronounced differences phonologically and differences of vocabulary between Inuit and any of one of the Yupik languages is greater than between any two Yupik languages.