Nunatsiaq
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Nunatsiaq is the Inuktitut
term for the Northwest Territories
. Since the creation of the territory of Nunavut in 1999, it has seen limited use in English, although it remains part of the name of several institutions from before that time.
Inuktitut
Inuktitut or Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Inuit language is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada...
term for the Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
. Since the creation of the territory of Nunavut in 1999, it has seen limited use in English, although it remains part of the name of several institutions from before that time.
- The Nunatsiaq NewsNunatsiaq NewsNunatsiaq News is a Canadian weekly newspaper based in Iqaluit, Nunavut serving Nunavut and the Nunavik region of northern Quebec and has been in operation since 1973. The paper, published every Friday by Nortext Publishing Corporation of Iqaluit and Ottawa, bears a retail price of $1.00...
- The former electoral districtElectoral district (Canada)An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...
of Nunatsiaq in use from 1979 to 1997, which covered the Inuit-inhabited portions of the Northwest Territories. See Nunavut (electoral district)Nunavut (electoral district)Nunavut is a federal electoral district in Nunavut, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Nunatsiaq, its predecessor that covered the same area, was a federal electoral district in Northwest Territories, that was represented in the House of Commons from 1979...
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