THE 47,000 Inuit who live in Canada’s Arctic speak five dialects of Inuktut and use nine writing systems. The dialects are similar enough that an Inuk from one group can puzzle out what a speaker from ...
Signs in the mainly Inuit territory of Nunavut are written in the iconic Inuktitut syllabary as well as English Fresh efforts are under way to finally give the Inuit people of Arctic Canada a common ...
University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. I am Norma Dunning. I am a ...
Vol. 29, No. 1/2, Préserver la langue et les savoirs / Preserving language and knowledge (2005), pp. 233-237 (5 pages) La dérive des langues en Alaska menace de remplacer l'inupiaq et d'autres langues ...
-- When Edna MacLean, a renowned Inuk linguist, took the podium at a language conference in Iqaluit this year, over 200 Inuit from Canada, the United States and Greenland were listening in the ...
Longtime Nunavut politician and former Government of Nunavut minister Manitok Thompson is still finding ways to put her ...
Netflix, APTN and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have commissioned a new comedy series created and written by Inuit television writer-producer Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Inuit filmmaker Alethea ...
Two Inuit go hunting. One hands the other his rifle and the recipient says “ma’na.” His partner, though, has no idea what he’s just heard. The word for thanks in his dialect is “qujannamiik.” ...
Fresh efforts are under way to finally give the Inuit people of Arctic Canada a common way to write their language. A recently created task force is working on a plan to standardise the writing system ...
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