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.

Pronounciations 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: Sound not found in English, but simialar to the French 'gargled r' sound. m: Found in most, mall, and ham. n: Found in north. s: Found in l: Simialar to l in lost. j: Found in year and you. v: Found in vanity. r: Simialar to English r. 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: Exacly like the sound ng above, but pronounce for a longer period of time. t: Found in English touch and take.