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The Canadian Press reported that Statistics Canada data put Inuktut speakers in Canada at roughly 40,000 and that Google worked with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which represents about 70,000 Inuit. ITK advised on translation quality and on the two writing systems, qaniujaaqpait syllabics and qaliujaaqpait in the Roman alphabet, and the service supports both. Google engineer Isaac Caswell said that Inuktut had enough clean online text for a model where Cree, with more speakers, did not. ITK president Natan Obed called the addition reconciliation in action. Google said that the models will still make many mistakes. On 29 October 2024 Nunatsiaq News reported on two professional translators who tried the service. Both found it helpful for single words and simple translations and said that it should not be used for reports. One uses it to research uncommon words and to proofread. Google's App Store listing still offered Inuktut in both scripts on 2 November 2026. No usage figure has been published.","replication":{"produced_by":["Google found enough clean, well-written Inuktut text online to train a usable model, which it says Cree lacked.","Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami reviewed translation quality and supplied a converter so that both writing systems could be supported."],"must_hold":["Users must check anything complicated with a fluent speaker, as both translators advise.","Output follows the dialects in the training text, so a sentence may read differently from local usage."],"echoes":[]}}}}}}}