Language code: ik
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ik
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The table below provides technical details for the Inupiaq language, designated by the ik code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Inupiaq Native Iñupiaq |
| Family | Eskimo-Aleut |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern Alaskan IñupiaqSeward Peninsula Iñupiaq |
| Related languages | InuvialuktunInuktitutKalaallisut |
| Key facts | Member of the Inuit branch of the Eskimo–Aleut familyUses a Latin orthography featuring special letters such as ‘ġ’, ‘ḷ’, ‘ł’, ‘ñ’ and ‘ŋ’Polysynthetic and ergative-absolutive, allowing long verb complexes that encode subject, object and tense in one wordHas three basic vowels (i, a, u), each with a short and long form, yielding six phonemic vowelsVocabulary is particularly rich for sea-ice, weather and subsistence hunting concepts |
| Sample phrase | Kamai, qanuq itpich? |
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Inupiaq belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It is recognized for ceremonial purposes as one of Alaska's official languages and is written using the Latin script (Iñupiaq alphabet). It is estimated that there are about 2,000 to 3,000 speakers, mostly in Alaska.
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*The graph shows a rough estimate of Inupiaq speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Supported file formats
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ