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Lesson 10 of 10
Help and emergencies in Inuktitut
The words you hope to never need. Play the ten Inuktitut words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Inuktitut phrases in this lesson
- แแฒแชแแแ!ee-ka-YOOR-loo-nga
- Help!
- แแแแแฏแ แ แ!aan-nee-ah-see-OOK-tee
- Call a doctor
- แณแแฏpoo-LEE-see
- Police
- PharmacyFAR-ma-see
- Pharmacy
- แแแแแแaan-nee-AH-vik
- Hospital
- แแชแ แฏแชแชแta-mak-see-MA-yoo-nga
- I'm lost
- แแแแแ แแaan-nee-AK-too-nga
- I don't feel well
- แแแแแ แชแ tee-lik-ta-OO-yook
- It was stolen
- แแฒแชแ แแ แแแแ แแee-ka-yook-ta-oo-ree-ah-KAK-too-nga
- It's an emergency
- แแแ!AH-va-nee
- Leave me alone
Literally "help me!". Emergency numbers differ by community; ask at the hotel.
Literally "health worker!". Each community has a health centre staffed by nurses.
From English. Policing in Nunavut is done by the RCMP.
Said in English. Medicine comes from the health centre or the store pharmacy.
Literally "place for the sick", the health centre. The only full hospital is in Iqaluit.
Out on the land, getting lost is serious: never travel without a local guide.
Literally "I am sick".
Literally "I need to be helped".
Literally "over there!", a blunt go away.