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Nunavut

nu·na·vut

UK/ˈn(j)uːnəˌvuːt/ US/ˈnʊnəvʊt/ uncommon

noun

1.

an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago

  • “Nunavut is the homeland of the Inuit people”

Origin

From Inuktitut nunavut (“our land”)/ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (nonafot). Compare Greenlandic nunarput (“our country, Greenland”), Inuvialuktun nunakput (“our land”), and Alutiiq nunapet (“our land”)

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