Harper Kenn. Some aspects of the grammar of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island

Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1974. — iv+94 p. — (Ethnology Division 15).Two closely-related dialects of Eskimo are those of Cumberland Peninsula, spoken today in the settlements of Pangnirtung and Broughton Island, and of North Baffin Island, spoken in Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet, Igloolik, Hall Beach, Clyde River and parts of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord.
This study analyzes some of the grammar of these two dialectal areas and points out some of the marked differences in the grammatical structures of the area.
While not dealing in detail with all aspects of the Eskimo grammar, the present study concentrates on an analysis of noun and verb structures. It also includes the uses of the dual person, a distinctive feature of the Eskimo language, which has started to disappear as a result of Euro-Canadian culture contact.
Two appendices discuss the historical background of the syllabic orthographic system used by Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic, and offer a critique of that writing system.