Nunavik
/nuːˈnɑːvɪk/noun
A region of northern Quebec, Canada, inhabited primarily by Inuit communities.
Did you know?Nunavik belongs to a wider Inuit naming tradition in which land names emphasize habitation, identity, and relationship to territory rather than imposed colonial boundaries.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Eskimo-Aleut
PEA
*nuna
“Land or country; a reconstructed ancestral root found across Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages.”
Proto-Inuit
Proto-Inuit
*nuna
“Land or inhabited territory.”
Inuktitut
Inuktitut
nuna
“Land or country.”
Inuktitut
Inuktitut
-vik
“A locative suffix meaning a place or location.”
Modern English
English
Nunavik
“The Inuit homeland and administrative region in northern Quebec, officially named in the late 20th century.”
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