Uummarmiutun

{{Short description|Iñupiaq variety of Canada}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Uummarmiutun

| states = Canada

| region = Northwest Territories

| ethnicity = Uummarmiut

| speakers = ?

| familycolor = eskaleut

| fam1 = Eskaleut

| fam2 = Inuit

| fam3 = Iñupiaq or Inuvialuktun

| ancestor = Proto-Eskaleut

| ancestor2 = Proto-Eskimoan

| ancestor3 = Proto-Inuit

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = none

| map = Inuktitut dialect map.svg

| mapcaption = Inuit dialects. Uummarmiut is the orange within Canada.

| pronunciation = {{IPA|[uːm.mɑʁ.mi.u.tun]}}

| altname = Uummaġmiutun

}}

Uummarmiutun ({{IPA|ik|uːm.mɑʁ.mi.u.tun|lang}}), Uummaġmiutun or Canadian Iñupiaq is the variant of Iñupiaq (or Inuvialuktun) spoken by the Uummarmiut, part of the Inuvialuit, who live mainly in the communities of Inuvik and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories of Canada.[https://irc.inuvialuit.com/about-irc/culture/language Inuvialuktun Dialects]

This dialect is essentially the same as that spoken by the Inupiat of Alaska, and is present in Canada because of migration from Alaska in the 1910s, reoccupying traditionally Siglit Inuit lands abandoned during the devastating disease outbreaks of the previous century.[http://www.canadianarchaeology.com/cmcc/pinuva.htm The Inuvialuit by David Morrison, Curator of N.W.T. Archaeology (District of Mackenzie), Canadian Museum of Civilization] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229125642/http://www.canadianarchaeology.com/cmcc/pinuva.htm |date=2000-02-29 }}

Because Inuvik and Aklavik are ethnically mixed communities where English is the near-exclusive language of communication, few young people speak Uummarmiutun and the language is very endangered.

It is one of the three dialects – Kangiryuarmiutun and Siglitun are the other two – of the Inuit language grouped together under the label Inuvialuktun.