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Inuit Sign Language (ISL or IUR for Inuit Uukturausingit) also known as Eskimo Sign Language and Inuktitut Sign Language is the indigenous sign language used by Inuit communities in the eastern Arctic including Nunavut and perhaps northern Quebec Nova Scotia and Greenland. At least since the 18th century hearing Inuit used some form of sign language for trade and communication between various Inuit languages a similar role to that played by Plains Sign Language further south.