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Uummarmiutun (), Uummaġmiutun or Canadian Iñupiaq is the variant of Inupiat language (or Inuvialuktun) spoken by the Uummarmiut, part of the Inuvialuit, who live mainly in the communities of Inuvik and Aklavik in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Inuvialuktun Dialects
This dialect is essentially the same as that spoken by the Inupiat people of Alaska, and is present in Canada because of migration from Alaska in the 1910s, reoccupying traditionally Siglit Inuit lands abandoned during the devastating disease outbreaks of the previous century. The Inuvialuit by David Morrison, Curator of N.W.T. Archaeology (District of Mackenzie), Canadian Museum of Civilization
Because Inuvik and Aklavik are ethnically mixed communities where English is the near-exclusive language of communication, few young people speak Uummarmiutun and the language is very endangered.
It is one of the three dialects – Kangiryuarmiutun and Siglitun are the other two – of the Inuit languages grouped together under the label Inuvialuktun.
The similarity in names is sometimes obscured by the different spelling conventions used in Alaska and Canada.
| Uummaġmiutun | Uummarmiutun | Uummarmiut dialect |
| siksrik | hikr̂ik/sikr̂ik | ground squirrel |
| qugruk | qugr̂uk | tundra swan |
| aaġlu | arlu | killer whale |
| amaġuq | amaruq | gray wolf |
| isuŋŋaġluk | ihun’ngaq | Pomarine jaeger |
| kaŋuq | kanguq | snow goose |
| qunŋiq | qun’ngiq | reindeer |
| tiġiganniaq | tiriganiaq | Arctic fox |
| umiŋmak | umingmak | muskox |
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