Talk:Inuktitut syllabics

message: Can someone render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Inuktitut syllabics? Thanks! Chris 21:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Scouting in Nunavut]]

message: I know this isn't quite related to the page, but does anyone know how to get the Inuktitut letters to displat correctly in Google Chrome? I know it isn't a font issue, because  shows things just fine. Tompw (talk) (review) 15:07, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's odd. I never had to set any of the browsers up to display once I had installed the fonts. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:07, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I installed the suggested font at Help:Multilingual_support#Canadian_Aboriginal_Syllabics, and it didn't appear to work... but things now do. Odd. Tompw (talk) (review) 14:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inuktitut syllabics / Google Chrome 

message: Why is "ᓄᖅᑲᕆᑦ" (below the stop sign) transliterated as "nuqqarit?" In the table "ᖅ" is like "q" and "ᑲ" like "ka," so it should be "nuqkarit!"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.17.92.168 (talk) 03:19, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right --Kmoksy (talk) 09:27, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't that just an orthographic convention? — kwami (talk) 09:38, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  ᓄᖅᑲᕆᑦ = nu—qk—arit  ᐊᖓᑦᑯᖅ = anga—tk—uq in angakkuq (= ᐊᖓᒃᑯᖅ) , Google: "nuqqarit" + "stop" (with Wikipedia: 328) & "nuqkarit" + "stop" (405), Inuktitut - English - with caption ᓄᕐᒃᑲᕆᑦ (nuqkarit) --Kmoksy (talk) 14:59, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: ᓄᖅᑲᕆᑦ

message: One thing conspicuously missing from the article is any explanation of in what direction the syllabics are written.  Left to right? -right to left? -top to bottom? -bottom to top?  Also, determining the intended "up" seems to be problematical (especially when used as a signature on carved stone artworks) since most of the characters have four different versions with completely different sounds when used in different directions.  (In other words, in the Latin alphabet, most characters are unambiguous in their directionality; there is no "A" shape that is used upside-down or 90-degrees to one side, whereas the triangle is used in 3 different directions to represent 3 different sounds.)  It would be helpful if someone explained what methods(s) might be used to determine the intended "up" when reading them in contexts other than the printed page, where "up" is obvious. Bricology (talk) 07:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direction of writing, and way to determine same? 

message: The article currently provides traansliterations for the various characters, but does not give the sounds they represent for readers unfamiliar with Inuktitut languages. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:46, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transliterations 

message: The titirausiit nutaunngittut is/are mentioned as the old system before 1976. It would be nice to show or explain how it differs from the current system. 2601:441:4400:1740:3177:7AD6:4BF8:3864 (talk) 19:56, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titirausiit nutaunngittut? 

message: From what I can tell, it should be written like ᖖ + ᒉ, but the character doesn't seem to exist. According to the article, both "nng-" and "-ai" are used in Nunavik, but does this sequence not exist? If not, the article could use a little note to explain. — W.andrea (talk) 16:19, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I've gathered, it wouldn't be written like that because of the Nunavik rules for "nng". Instead it would be either ᖕ + ᙰ or ᓐ + ᙰ. — W.andrea (talk) 03:11, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about "nngai"? 

message: I'm trying to learn Nunavik syllabics and I'm using this table as a reference, but I found some sources that disagree with it:
* https://nunavik-ice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Inuktitut_Syllabics.pdf
** via https://nunavik-ice.com/en/c/inuktitut-en/inuktitut-syllabics/#
* https://publicationsnunavik.com/other/history-of-syllabics-and-regions-of-use/
** also https://www.makivvik.ca/aipainunavik/
Specifically:
* The "h" row has a note  but the sources I found don't show it
* The "s/h" row has a note that makes it sound like it only occurs in Nunavut (), but apparently it occurs in Nunavik too, as s
* The sources I found don't have the "jj" or the glottal stop
— W.andrea (talk) 03:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table needs sources, at least for Nunavik