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Inuit (Inuktitut) is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by Inuit people, mainly in Canada and Greenland. It is closely related to Yupik, spoken in Alaska and Siberia. There are approximately 90,000 speakers.

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Download our free dictionary (for Windows or Android) and browse both the Inuit-English and the English-Inuit lists. Look up a word, add or modify an entry, and learn words at your own rhythm from a personal learning list. Click here to learn more about the features or scroll down to download the program. An online version is also available, so you can browse the dictionary without downloading it.

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Word list information

Inuit > English: 697 words
English > Inuit: 707 words

Last update: March 21, 2014
First upload: February 16, 2002

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