The new Official Languages Act for Nunavut recognizes the Inuit
(Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun), English and French languages as the
official languages within the territory. Click here for a
History of Nunavut's Language Laws. The Inuit language The Inuit
language includes Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut. There are two
different ways people in Nunavut write the Inuit language:
Qaliujaaqpait (or Roman orthography) and Qaniujaaqpait
(syllabics). Most Inuktitut speakers in Nunavut use syllabics to
write their language. This writing system is made up of about 60
characters, most of them representing complete syllables. Thus
“NU” in Roman orthography is written with one character in
syllabics: “ᓄ”. The Roman orthography writing system uses the
same letters that are used to write English or French. Many
people who normally use syllabics will also use Roman
orthography, especially for writing e-mails or when doing other
tasks on computers. The Government of Nunavut’s computers now
have the capacity to work in syllabics. Inuin