INUKTITUT VOICE OVER TALENTS NATIVE SPEAKERS - PAGE 1

Inukitut language
Native to: Nunavut
Native speakers:34,000
Writing system: Inuktitut syllabics, Latin)
Capital city: Iqaluit
Currency: Canadian dollar (CAD)
Dialing code: +1
Country code: CA-NU
Population: 31,906
Inuktitut, an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia by about 65,000 people. There is in fact a dialect continumum of Inuktitut dialects across the Arctic with varying degress of mutually intelligibility between them. The language is used in schools and local government to some extent. It is also used on the radio and TV. In 2007 a new policy was introduced that will require senior government officials to speak Inuktitut by 2008. This requirement will eventually be extended of other officials. The Inuktitut syllabary was adapted from the Cree syllabary in the late 19th century by John Horden and E. A. Watkins, missionaries from England. Edmund Peck promoted the use of the syllabary across the Canadian Arctic, and also translated the bible into Inuktitut, and wrote an Eskimo Grammar and an Eskimo-English Dictionary.