Era until the 1960s ISO 639-3 None (mis) | Language family Inuit-based pidgin Glottolog None | |
Native to Eastern Canadian Arctic | ||
Inuktitut-English Pidgin was an Inuit pidgin used as a contact language in Quebec, Labrador, and neighboring areas of the eastern Arctic. It consisted of uninflected Inuktitut word stems arranged in an English SVO order. Thus for Inuit takuvagit "I see you" was pidgin uvanga taku ivvit.
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Inuktitut-English Pidgin Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA