Inuktitut/Lesson 1



The syllabary used to write Inuktitut (Titirausiq Nutaaq). The extra characters with the dots represent long vowels; in the Latin transcription, the vowel would be doubled.

Pronunciations For Speakers of English:

i: Found in me, bean, and seal.

u: Found in you, new, and fool.

a: Found in father and balmy.

h: Found in hand, harm, and hold.

p: Found in park and pencil.

t: Found in tight, time, and meet.

k: Found in car, kill, and cluster.

g: Found in garbage, go, and ghost.

m: Found in most, mall, and ham.

n: Found in north.

s: Found in south, seek, and first.

l: Similar to l in lost.

j: Found in year and you.

v: Found in vanity.

r: Sound not found in English, but similar to the French 'gargled r' sound.

q: Sound not found in English. Like making an English k but pronounced farther back in the throat.

ng: Found in thing, sing, and ring.

nng: Exactly like the sound ng above, but pronounce for a longer period of time.

t: Found in English touch and take.