Inuktitut
Name of several Inuit languages spoken in Canada
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| 2021 | Census revealed that 80.9% of Quebec's 15,800 Inuit population speaks Inuktitut, highlighting the language's strong presence in the region. |
| September 2019 | Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami adopted a unified orthography called Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait, based on the Latin alphabet without diacritics, after eight years of development. |
| 2016 | Canadian census reported 70,540 individuals identifying as Inuit, with 37,570 self-reporting Inuktitut as their mother tongue. |
| 2012 | The book 'The Orphan and the Polar Bear' became the first work ever translated into Inuktitut Braille, with a copy preserved at the headquarters of the Nunavut Public Library Services in Baker Lake. |
| 2012 | Tamara Kearney, Manager of Braille Research and Development at the Commonwealth Braille and Talking Book Cooperative, developed a Braille code for the Inuktitut language syllabics, which represents syllabics' orientation using the Liblouis Braille translation system. |
| April 2012 | First complete Bible in Inuktitut, translated by native speakers, was published with the completion of the Old Testament. |
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