
	Where results make sense

Topic: Inuit language

Related Topics

Language family

Siswati language

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Inuinnaqtun

Kalaallisut language

Tigre language

Inupiaq language

Kirundi language

Kashmiri language

Bilabial

Georgian language

Tongan language

Sanskrit language

Maltese language

Place of articulation

In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Inuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Inuit looked into the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to find images of their family and friends dancing in the next life, and they relied upon the shaman, while the nearest thing to a central deity was the Old Woman (Sedna), who lived beneath the sea.
		The Inuit were a nomadic culture that circulated almost exclusively north of the timberline, the de facto southern border of Inuit society.
		Inuit culture is alive and vibrant today in spite of the negative impact of the Arctic exiles, residential schools, the TB epidemic and exiles, the paternalistic meddling in all their affairs including the current serious concerns regarding the removal of Inuit children from their homes by the CAS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuit (4889 words)

	Inuit language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language of the Inuit people is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador.
		The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages.
		The Inuit language is an official language in the Northwest Territories, the official and dominant language of Nunavut, enjoys a high level of official support in Nunavik, a semi-autonomus portion of Quebec, and is still spoken in some parts of Labrador.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuit_language (2965 words)

	Inuit - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Inuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-04)
		In 1999 the semi-autonomous Inuit homeland of Nunavut was established as a territory of Canada.
		Inuit is their term for ‘people’, whereas ‘Eskimo’ is a derogatory word meaning ‘eater of raw flesh’ applied to them by Algonquian-speaking American Indians.
		Inupiaq, the Inuit language, is written using a syllabary (set of characters representing syllables) invented by a missionary in the 19th century.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Inuit (1168 words)

	Inuit
		It is hypothesized that the nomadic Inuit people originated in northeastern Siberia and that around 2,000 BC they began to migrate eastward across the Bering Straits to Alaska and then across northern Canada to Greeenland in widely separated communities.
		The Nunavut dialects of Inuit have fifteen consonants.
		This is different from Indo-European languages such as English in which the subjects of both intransitive and transitive verbs are marked with the nominative case and objects of transitive verbs are marked with the accusative case.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/october/Inuit.html (963 words)

	Alaska Native Language Center -- Comparative Yupik and Inuit
		Four distinct Yupik (or Western Eskimo) languages are spoken along the shores of the Gulf of Alaska, in southwestern Alaska, and on the easternmost tip of Siberia.
		The Inuit (or Eastern Eskimo) language continuum is spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.
		The Inuit language is a continuum, or dialect chain, that includes Alaskan Inupiaq and stretches from Unalakleet on Norton Sound across northern Alaska and northern Canada to east Greenland.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/yupik_inuit.html (379 words)

	Native American People/Tribes-Inuit People Page 1
		Inuit lands include the northeastern tip of Siberia, the islands of the Bering Sea, and the coastal regions of mainland Alaska.
		The Inuit cultural identity is firmly rooted in nature and the land.
		It is maintained through storytelling, drum dancing, language, family and cultural laws and traditions, the passing on of traditional hunting and survival skills and traditional arts and crafts.
	www.snowwowl.com /peopleinuit1.html (1284 words)

	NAC Publications - Inuktituk and Inuit Culture and Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-04)
		Contemporary Inuit society is examined, followed by discussions on the Inuit language which include demography and politics, gender, age and the language community.
		The linguistic impact of school and the native language, literature and the media and language and identity are then explored.
		The emphasis is on Inuit communities and on the role played by language and education at the community level.
	www.nac.nu.ca /library/publications.htm (1061 words)

	Teaching Treasures Inuit project
		The Inuit didn't like other people killing the whales and the sea animals because it was soon evident that there was not enough wildlife left for the Inuit to hunt.
		They preserved the Inuit language by writing it down and provided medicine but a lot of the old Inuit way of life was forbidden.
		The Inuit were given 44 million acres of land in Alaska and 900 million dollars which was used for creating jobs and training.
	teachingtreasures.com.au /inuit.htm (519 words)

	Language Log: Arctic folk at loss for words again
		In the Inuit language Inuktitut, robins are known just as the "bird with the red breast," she said.
		These linked ideas about language use being a matter of having appropriate words to name things, and seeing or experiencing being impossible without the words to act as mediators, add up to a claim about language that is just palpably insane.
		But I tell you, this continual harping on the "no word for it in their language" meme strikes me as one of the two most irrational features of everyday attitudes to language (the other, of course, being willingness to believe in rules of English grammar that simply never existed).
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001665.html (814 words)

	A Hotlist on The Inuit
		Inuit culture - http://www.nunatour.nt.ca/ADV/ADV2b.htm More information on Inuit culture -- the writing is small, but there is only one short page to read, and look at a few photos.
		Inuit language - http://www.museevirtuel.ca/Exhibitions/Inuit_Haida/inuit/English/Our_culture/language/language.html There is good basic information about the Inuit language; a chart showing the syllables used is given.
		Inuit land - http://www.museevirtuel.ca/Exhibitions/Inuit_Haida/inuit/English/land_and_fresh_waters/a_story/a_story.html This site shows many photos of what the environment in the Arctic is like, as well as gives explanations about the characteristics of it.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listtheinuimr.html (500 words)

	Eureka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-04)
		Eighty-five percent of the 26,000 people in the territory are Inuit who live in 28 communities scattered through a region the size of Mexico (2,000,000 square kilometers).
		The Inuit language that concerns us here is spoken not only in the territory of Nunavut, but also across the Arctic region from the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia to the east coast of Greenland.
		The various dialects are sometimes close and sometimes very far apart in individual terminology; nevertheless, the language is fundamentally understandable among speakers from Alaska to Greenland.
	www.foreignword.com /eureka/details.asp?id=676 (184 words)

	Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
		The first language he learned was Inuit, because Knud's mother was from an Inuit tribe.
		Knud served as interpreter for the expedition and his skills in the Inuit language proved to be very useful.
		The translation of the Inuit language into any of the European language families is extremely difficult.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/rasmussen_knud.html (698 words)

	languagehat.com: Comment on LANGUAGE GUESSER.
		Inuit is the plural of inuk, "human being", and inuktitut means something like "in the manner of an inuk.
		Of course, since the Eskimoan languages form a dialect continuum from the Bering Strait to Greenland, that's a simplified view of the situation[2].
		The Alaskan dialects are referred to as Iñupiaq or Inupiaq; the Canadian dialects, spoken by the Inuit, as Inuvialuktun, Inuktitut and Inuttut (Labrador); and the Greenlandic dialects as Kalaallisut.
	www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1620 (1765 words)

	Inupiaq and the Schools, A Handbook for Teachers
		Many young people barely spoke their native language while they were away from home, so that they got into the habit of conversing mostly in English and remained with language skills which would traditionally have been appropriate only to children, since in all languages child speech matures naturally as the speaker nears adulthood.
		If the youngest generation does not speak a language, this indicates that the language is not being passed on in the way it has traditionally been during its entire past history, as all languages are passed on from parent to child, assuring the continuity of language.
		The few hours a week devoted to a second language, be it Inupiaq in a village school or German in a city high school, often serve to impart only a basic familiarity with the sounds of the language, a little basic vocabulary, and a few grammatical structures.
	www.alaskool.org /language/inupiaqhb/Inupiaq_Handbook.htm (9770 words)

	Civilization.ca - Oracle - Canadian Inuit History
		The Inuit are the aboriginal inhabitants of the North American Arctic, from Bering Strait to East Greenland, a distance of over 6000 kilometers.
		This Inuit migration was not a single mass event, but probably involved dozens of small parties of perhaps 20 or 30 people moving east in search of a better life.
		Competition with the Inuit, who were far better adapted to Arctic life than the Norse, might also have been a factor.
	www.civilization.ca /educat/oracle/modules/dmorrison/page01_e.html (720 words)

	WBUR Dispatches : Greenland \| Land of Ice and Snow
		The Inuit nation has a long history of survival in such a harsh climate.
		Greenlandic is an Inuit language that is quite unlike any other language.
		It is largest town in eastern Greenland with a population of almost 2,000 Inuit.
	www.wbur.org /special/dispatches/greenland/inuit (110 words)

	Native Languages: Links and resources for study
		Prairie Band Potawotomie Language Project -- With support of a grant from Iowa Humanities Commission, University and Reservation-based group is attempting to construct a lexicon, a grammar, and other tools to keep this Algonquian language alive.
		SIL bibliography of Native Language publications -- non-tchnical and technical are on same page, separated by a top of the pag jump anchor.
		Language and Culture -- Feature article on why Native stories often lose all point in translation, posted by Linguistics prof.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/language.html (1547 words)

	Indigenous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-04)
		Inuit are a people who live near the Arctic.
		As the Inuit spread eastward, they modified their way of life to suit the Arctic environments they encountered.
		Only recently have land claim agreements been signed, allowing the aboriginal peoples a hold a legal claim to what they have always considered to be their land.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /arctic/inuit/people.htm (585 words)

	Eskimo "Snow" Words
		It is a collection of some 46 short stories from Inuit folklore, derived from the town of Povungnituk on the east coast of Hudson Bay.
		The stories are presented as parallel texts with the Inuit text being accompanied by an English translation, both in Latin letters, but with the Inuit text in lower-case letters and the English translation in mixed upper-case and lower-case letters.
		Inuit is an agglutinative language; words are made up of stems and roots joined together into what appear to be single words.
	www.nationalfinder.com /inuit (465 words)

	Building Nunavut: A Story of Inuit Self-Government
		The Inuvialuit, the Inuit of the Mackenzie River delta and the Beaufort Sea communities, were an Alaskan people who had moved into their area during the 20th century to replace the Mackenzie Inuit who had mostly died out.
		Finally, Inuit were concerned that Nunavut not simply be another government which directed and changed their lives, so they were most concerned that significant Inuit employment in that government be secured so the governors would understand and be sympathetic to the governed.
		Among aboriginal peoples such as Alaskan Inuit and Indians, Greenlandic Inuit and Laplanders (the Sami), or among the indigenous European populations of Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Shetland, the same emerging identities with their political and cultural imperatives, and demands for the safeguarding of northern economic assets traditional to these peoples, are observable.
	www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /~agraham/jull/buildnun.htm (5344 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-04)
		The frozen Inuit homeland encompasses some of the planet's coldest and most inhospitable regions in parts of northeastern Russia, areas of Greenland, Alaska and northern Canada.
		Computing is not among the Inuit's typical pursuits, as the civilisation has been passed from generation to generation with storytelling, drum dancing and hunting and fishing skills.
		Inuit is a particularly difficult language to adapt as it is written as a mixture of symbols and consonants.
	bink.nu /Article1594.bink (528 words)

	Culture Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-04)
		The author writes regular articles on Inuit culture for the local paper in Iqaluit, NWT and these articles are archived on her site.
		The life style of the Inuit, past and present, should be viewed in the the context of the natural envirinment.
		Inuktittut, the language used by the Inuit in the eastern Arctic, had no written form until one was developped by a missionary in the 1800's.
	www.nunanet.com /~jtagak/resources/culturelinks.html (308 words)

	The Inuit are a people who live in and near the Arctic
		Inuit culture developed more than 1,000 years ago in what is now the Bering Sea region of Alaska and Siberia.
		The Inuit eventually adopted many aspects of European culture and permanently altered their traditional way of life.
		Many Inuit still spend much of their time in traditional activities, such as hunting and fishing.
	www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au /inuit.htm (549 words)

	Inuktitut (Inuit/Eskimo Language)
		Inuktitut is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken across the entire northern span of North America, forming what is called a linguistic chain--each dialect is easily mutually intelligible with its neighbors, but not with dialects further away.
		For practical purposes, linguistic chains are treated as a single language, and so the Alaskan dialects Inupiaq and Inupiatun, the Eastern and Western Inuktitut languages of Canada, and Greenlandic are all classified together.
		Inuk history is interesting and important, but the Inuit are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
	www.native-languages.org /inuktitut.htm (346 words)

	Nunavut 99 - Our Language, Our Selves
		For an Inuk like Kublu, language and culture are inextricably entwined in the perception of who she is, to herself and to others.
		The language of Inuit, Inuktitut, has changed in the last century, but it is still the same.
		The third is when the language of the home is English, except for the elders in the corner, a generation cut off from their grandchildren.
	www.nunavut.com /nunavut99/english/our.html (2046 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Inuit meet to forge language ties
		Although they speak the same language they do not use the same alphabet and the conference is hoping to come up with a plan to make the written Inuit language easier for all its users to understand.
		The General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference is held every four years - this year's gathering is in the far north of the Canadian province of Quebec.
		This conference is not seeking an Inuit nation but it is trying to find a way of fostering a renewed sense of identity - bringing the Inuit in from the cold.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2189657.stm (330 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)