This new information is posing something of a problem for the Inuit language, Inuktitut. |
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Central to the realization of an Inuit government is the success of establishing Inuktitut as the working language of the government of Nunavut. |
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Piugattuk speaks Inuktitut and has traditional Inuit skills that would have been difficult to fake on film. |
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And only 64 per cent of Inuit said that Inuktitut was the main language used at home. |
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For the vast majority of the 600 students at Gammeqarfik, their first language is Greenlandic, a dialect of Inuktitut. |
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In doing so, it would establish Inuinnaqtun as a distinct language from Inuktitut, rather than a dialect, as Aariak has recommended. |
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Since she and three unilingual Inuit elders were elected in October, the use of Inuktitut has skyrocketed in municipal documents and proceedings. |
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It is ironic, but if we want to develop Inuktitut as a working language we need to be highly literate in English and possibly French. |
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The Inuit speak six dialects of a common language, Inuktitut, and are divided into eight main tribal groups. |
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It was followed by Dene, Inuktitut, Slavey, Dogrib and Ojibway translations. |
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But we must pursue and accomplish our goals of building Inuktitut resources and curriculum. |
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An application that produces an exact copy of an Inuktitut web page with the Inuktitut syllabic text transliterated to the roman alphabet. |
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Respondents could choose to have the interview conducted in English or Inuktitut. |
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In light of the isolated location of most Inuit communities and the strong index of continuity for Inuktitut, this should not be surprising. |
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However, the full transcript of the proceedings was later translated to Inuktitut on audio tape. |
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The book retells the legend of the « woman that changed into a she-wolf » translated from the Inuktitut. |
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Indeed, Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut are the only three languages on solid ground. |
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Currently Cherokee, Hawaiian, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Kalaallisut, and Navajo are supported. |
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I can think of more than a handful of Inuit who would not fear to be politically incorrect if the occasion called for it in conversing with Inuit of influence in Inuktitut. |
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Have the children make a list of words in Inuktitut which are used everyday or which are used by companies: anorak, igloo, etc. |
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Once we started praying, he started reading from the prayer book in Inuktitut. |
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Inuit children grow up bilingual in Inuktitut and French or English. |
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Besides being fluent in French, Cunningham also reads, writes and speaks Inuktitut, which he's studied since moving to Pangnirtung more than a decade ago. |
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Is there not a social and political willingness to know and teach about Inuktitut and Inuit culture in a land where 85 per cent of the population are Inuit? |
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Kudlarjuk relearned Inuktitut and grew up to tell her own daughter that her first impression of Connecticut was that there were so many lights. |
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Manirajak fought to have Inuktitut and Cree languages broadcast. |
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Today, Arctic peoples from different regions speak their own dialects of Inuktitut, Yupik and Inupiaq languages. |
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However, the current criteria create a barrier for unilingual Inuit, since training is not available in Inuktitut. |
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Roman orthography uses the English alphabet to sound out the words in Inuktitut. |
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When I was learning Inuktitut my teacher would say all the time, 'I'm not teaching you for fun. |
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The remaining channels will show events in nearly two dozen other languages, from Gujarati and Inuktitut to Portuguese and Urdu. |
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As members are already aware, I understand we have interpretation available in Inuktitut. |
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An obvious strength of courtworkers is their inherent ability to speak Inuktitut or Innuinaqtun, as well as English. |
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Signs are written both in English and Inuktitut, the Inuit language. |
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Its working language is Inuktitut, but other languages used in government are Inuinnaqtun, English and French. |
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There are nearly 400 eligible Francophone students in the territory, many of whom speak English or Inuktitut at home. |
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Natsiq is an Inuktitut word for Ringed Seal and Tallurutiit is the Inuktitut word for a woman's traditional chin tattoo. |
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There are several Inuktitut dialects, but there is an accepted one, the South Baffin dialect. |
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Rosalie is told many stories in her native language of Inuktitut, but the community is growing and English is becoming more common. |
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In syllabic scripts, such as the Inuktitut syllabary, each sign represents a whole syllable. |
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In the Northwest Territories, Inuvialuktun, Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut are all official langues. |
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We also appreciate the excellent work of Joan Perrault, the data entry clerk, Simeonie Kunnuk, Lorna Kayakjuak and Nick Amautinuar for the Inuktitut translations. |
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Every Canadian schoolchild has heard about the dozens of words in Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, and other Inuit dialects for ice and snow, which were crucial for survival during the centuries before technology. |
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The language situation in the second family is very complex with the existence of Inuktitut, English, ASL, fingerspelling, an indigenous sign language and possibly some combination of all of the above. |
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The challenge lies in the fact that Inuktitut is a polysynthetic, agglutinative language, meaning that words are very long and are made by gluing meaning fragments together. |
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Figure 2-1 shows the index of continuity by ethnic designation for Amerindian languages and Inuktitut, as well as the three languages with the largest population, Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut. |
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She later joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation beginning as a receptionist and later becoming an announcer and producer in Inuktitut broadcasting. |
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To address these issues, NACA is working with the Canada Council for the Arts to ensure their applications are available in an easy-to-understand format and translated to Inuktitut for Nunavut artists. |
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In the 1990s, following SSHRC-funded research on the Inuit language, Inuktitut, Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit asked Dorais to teach courses on the lexicology, grammar and sociolinguistics of the language. |
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Aboriginal languages with large mother tongue populations, including the Inuktitut, Algonkian, and Athapaskan language families, had the highest rates of home use. |
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There were 12 major language groups among the peoples living in what is now Canada: Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan, Athabascan, Kootenaian, Salishan, Wakashan, Tsimshian, Haidan, Tlinglit, Inuktitut, and Beothukan. |
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About 147,000 people have Algonquian as their mother tongue, the language family that includes Cree and Ojibwe. Another 28,000 have Inuktitut, and 20,000 have Athabaskan. |
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This document is written in a style that allows qallunaat seeking an understanding of how the language is put together to absorb the basics of word formation, an essential part of the Inuktitut language. |
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We have different ways of communicating, we have different ways of understanding, and just being able to say I'm Inuk and I am proud to be Inuk when I speak Inuktitut. |
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Inuit Legal Info is available in Inuktitut in either audio or PDF format, in French in PDF format and, in some cases, in English in audio or PDF format. |
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Consent and assent forms were available in both English and Inuktitut. |
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We are currently developing materials in English and Inuktitut to address gaps in knowledge translation about Inuit-specific approaches to caring for children. |
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All sessions were conducted in Inuktitut and videotaped to be preserved. |
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Inuktitut is the majority language in Nunavut, and is one of three official languages in the territory. |
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Some Inuit languages such as Inuktitut, appears to have a more secure future in Quebec and Nunavut. |
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The Inuktitut language is still spoken in many areas of the Arctic and is common on radio and in television programming. |
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Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk worked at preserving Inuktitut and wrote one of the first novels ever published in that language. |
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In Inuktitut, spoken in eastern Arctic North America, the caribou is known by the name tuktu. |
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The recordings offer Silent Night in French, English, Japanese, Munsee, Inuktitut and Cree. |
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By far the most widespread were Cree, in the Algonkian group, and Inuktitut, an Eskaleut language of the Arctic. |
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She encouraged her community, especially young people, to preserve Inuit values, traditions and the Inuktitut language, and to stay in school. |
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Oh and by the way, my Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun language skills are, I'm embarrassed to say, non-existent. |
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Of these, only the Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibway languages have a large enough population of fluent speakers to be considered viable to survive in the long term. |
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Inuktitut is spoken in Canada and along with Inuinnaqtun is one of the official languages of Nunavut and are known collectively as the Inuit Language. |
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One source said the Inuktitut language programming at one point accounted for 22 per cent of the 25 per cent requirement for Aboriginal language shows. |
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