Natsilik dialect

Natsilik
Nattiliŋmiutut
Native to	Canada
Region	North America
Ethnicity	Netsilik Inuit
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Inuit Inuvialuktun Natsilik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	nets1241
Inuit dialects. (Broader) Netsilik is the dark green in the center.
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Netsilik /ˌnɛtˈsɪlɪk/,Natsilik,Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut,Nattilingmiutut,Nattiliŋmiutut is a dialect of Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuit or Inuktitut) language once spoken in the Nattilik area of Nunavut, Canada by Netsilik Inuit people.

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

Natsilik dialect has the special letters: š ř ŋ

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

š [ʂ] – sounds like ‘shr’ and is distinct from both the s sound that is used in words borrowed from English and the more common h sound.

ř [ɟ] (in Inuktitut syllabics 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 at the back of the throat.

ŋ – A small number of Inuktitut speakers use this character instead of ng. The use of ng is 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.