Natchilingmiutut (áÂÂá¦á áÂÂáÂÂáÂ¥á áÂÂá¦), Netsilik , Natsilik, Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut, Nattilingmiutut, or Nattilià Âmiutut is an Inuit language variety spoken in western Nunavut, Canada, by Netsilik Inuit.
( 'people from Natchilik') came from 'seal' + postbase 'place with something' + postbase 'inhabitants of'.
Natsilik dialect has the special letters: , used by some Nattilià Âmiut speakers. New encodings in Unicode were proposed for the Inuktitut syllabics corresponding to h and à ¡: 𪴠ha, 𪰠hi, 𪲠hu, and ðªº à ¡a, ðª¶ à ¡i, ðª¸ à ¡u, and their long counterparts with a dot above 𪵠haa, 𪱠hii, 𪳠huu, and ðª» à ¡aa, ðª· à ¡ii, ðª¹ à ¡uu. These 12 syllabic characters for Nattilingmiutut were included in version 14.0 of the Unicode Standard on 14 September 2021, are now formally part of the Standard, and are stable to use for digital text exchange. However, updates to system level syllabics fonts and keyboards to access the characters are underway and forthcoming.
à ¡ â also written as or , it sounds a bit like English "shr" and is distinct from both the s sound that is used in words borrowed from English and the more common h sound.
à  (in Inuktitut syllabics ) â sounds like an English (retroflex) r. It is distinct from the r sound used by other dialects, which is closer to the r sound made in French at the back of the throat.
â A small number of Inuktitut-speakers use this character instead of ng. The use of ng is deceiving because it makes use of two letters to represent what is a single sound. In syllabics this sound is represented by a single character . Using this letter also makes the distinction between the sequence and long clearer, the first being spelled nà  () and the latter à Âà  (). In eastern varieties of Inuktitut which do not have the sequence , long is spelled nng () rather than ngng (). When the letter à  is not used, the distinction may be made by spelling n'ng and nng.