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	Inuktitut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is recognised as an official language in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
		Inuinnaqtun is an Inuit language variant spoken in the western part of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, and at Holman in the Northwest Territories.
		The Inuktitut syllabary used in Canada is based on the Cree syllabary devised by the missionary James Evans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inuktitut (1978 words)

	Inuktitut language biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is related to the Aleut language, and together they form the Eskimo-Aleut family; while this has no proven wider affinities, some postulation has taken place as to the relation of Inuktitut to the Indo-European languages and to the Nostratic superphylum.
		Inuktitut, like other Eskimo-Aleut languages, represents a particular type of agglutinative language called a polysynthetic language: it "synthesizes" a root and various grammatical affixes to create long words with sentence-like meanings.
		The Inuktitut syllabary used in Canada is based on the Cree syllabary, which is in turn based on that of Ojibwe.
	inuktitut.biography.ms (594 words)

	Avataq » Programs & Projects » Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Language is a fundamental part of any culture and it is the key element that has enabled Inuit culture to remain strong through all the changes Inuit have experienced in the last century.
		Today in Nunavik, Inuktitut is the first language of over 90% of the Inuit population and it is spoken daily in the home, school and workplace settings.
		Inuktitut language workshops held annually or bi-annually in Nunavik communities with the participation of Inuit elders, translators, interpreters, educators and students.
	www.avataq.qc.ca /programs/language_en.cfm (256 words)

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		Ng spoke in Inuktitut he would say that this bill amends the Workers' Compensation Act to protect the co-workers of a worker and an employer of a worker from lawsuits in respect to transportation accidents arising out of and during the course of the worker's employment so that we can be equal to the provinces.
		Inuktitut language should be taught the same way as English is in the school.
		From another's perspective, "Inuktitut" is the language shared by a group of individuals, such as a family or a community, and is an affirmation of social ties and a source of pride.
	inuktitutcomputing.ca /HansardSearch/SampleSearches/inuktitut.html (10705 words)

	Inuktitut syllabary
		The Inuktitut syllabary was adapted from the Cree syllabary, which itself was adapted from the Ojibwe syllabary.
		The Inuktitut syllabary consists of a small number of basis signs, the vowel sound attached to each one depends on their orientation.
		The Inuktitut syllabary is actually only used in Canada, especially in the new Canadian territory of Nunavut, the population of which is 85% Inuit.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/inuktitut.htm (247 words)

	JEP: Typesetting Native American Languages
		All the native American languages spoken today are written either in some Latin alphabet, augmented with "accented" letters, or in a syllabary, a set of indivisible syllabic symbols, each of which represents a syllable.
		The Apache and the Navaho languages are among the native American languages that use a Latin alphabet, while Cherokee, Inuiktitut, and Cree are among the languages that use modern syllabaries.
		Inuktitut is the language of the Inuit (also known as "Eskimos," but the term is considered offensive by Inuit who live in Canada and Greenland).
	www.press.umich.edu /jep/08-01/syropoulos.html (2348 words)

	Main Page - Wikipedia
		It is hoped that this project will become a comprehensive source of information entirely in the native language of the Inuit.
		Dans le Wikipédia inuktitut, 47 articles sont en cours d'élaboration.
		Nous espérons que ce projet deviendra une encyclopédie comprehensive en langue inuktitut.
	iu.wikipedia.org /wiki/Main_Page (198 words)

	(English)Language Week will emphasize linguistic standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Inuktitut language is the principle instrument by which Inuit world views are shaped," NSDC Chair Tommy Evik said.
		Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week was highly successful in the past and did much to raise community awareness about various issues and concerns involving the day-to-day use of Inuktitut.
		The health of Inuktitut, and of Inuit culture, depends on Inuktitut being used constantly, respectfully, and spoken well in all areas of community life across Nunavut, they said.
	www.gov.nu.ca /jan162002a.htm (302 words)

	Uqausiit: Inuktitut Language Technologies \| Information Analysis and Retrieval \| Research Programs \| Research \| NRC-IIT
		Inuktitut is the major language of the Circumpolar region stretching from Alaska to Greenland.
		The Government of Nunavut is committed to making Inuktitut the language of work and for it to be taught throughout the primary and secondary curricula.
		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.
	iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca /projects-projets/uqausiit_e.html (466 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.
		Inuktitut has a long, rich history as an oral language, but its writing systems are fairly new.
		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)

	Nunatsiaq News
		On the contrary, language bureau staff will be expected to play a lead role in the protection, promotion and revitalization of Inuktitut, including Innuiaqtun and Inuvialuktun.
		One of the language bureau's first tasks will be to find ways to make Inuktitut-speaking elders part of the education process at community schools, as language consultants and-or instructors.
		In the meantime, the office of the Interim Commissioner has instructed the Culture, Language, Elders and Youth Department to work closely with the Department of Education to develop new Inuktitut education courses and material for the Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut981130/nvt81106_05.html (860 words)

	Site Visit - The Hopedale Language Nest, Labrador
		Languages spoken among the Inuit of Labrador are English and Inuktitut.
		Even in Nain Inuit children rarely use Inuktitut in their everyday interactions; English is the primary language of most Inuit both at home and in the workplace.
		Inuktitut speakers care for the babies throughout the working day, and speak solely Inuktitut in the presence of the infants.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/em-cr/eval/2003/2003_01/10_e.cfm (1005 words)

	Canadian Geographic Magazine: Maps, Travel, Photography, Geography Contests, and Canadian Geographic Magazine ...
		Inuktitut is spoken throughout Nunavut, but the language has been all but invisible in most other regions of Canada.
		The experts note that, as encouraging as it is to see the growing interest in Inuktitut, the priority is ensuring the language's survival among the Inuit population.
		She offers for comparison the options available to someone studying European languages in university and says there should be more opportunities here for those who wish to study a language whose roots lie within our borders.
	www.canadiangeographic.ca /magazine/ND04/indepth/language.asp (759 words)

	Guidelines for Teaching in a Bilingual Setting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Appropriate second language assessment is dynamic, continuous and focuses on uncovering strengths and is linked to exemplary teaching practices, standards of language and levels of proficiency.
		For these reasons teachers should be aware of the language and culture their students bring to school as well as the language embedded within the curriculum and the texts and materials used to convey that curriculum to students.
		Student’s interpersonal communication skills in a second language are not necessarily indicative of their ability to perform in that language at a level of complexity required by the curriculum.
	www.ecss.nu.ca /writers/El2/EL2.htm (6400 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		In the schools, students wrote essays, stories and poems on what their language means to them, elders visited schools, adult training centres and work places, while Inuktitut teachers, translators and elders went on the airwaves to discuss the language’s finer points.
		Each Nunavut government office was urged to use proper Inuktitut, charging a quarter to anyone caught using phrases such as "Tuniguk secretarymut" (give it to the secretary) or "The sila is very cold" (the weather is very cold), and encouraging employees to try out new words.
		Wilman said Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week reveals what’s badly needed to boost the language’s profile: that is, a larger presence in the workplace, especially in Iqaluit.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut010131/nvt10119_02.html (551 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 is our prime (though not only) medium of thought -- the way the world is conceptualized.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/language.html (1547 words)

	Inuit community centre: Tungasuvvingat Inuit
		Language plays a fundamental, sustaining role in Inuit culture.
		In Ottawa, with Inuit moving from various regions in the north, a unique dialect is evolving that is reflective of this particular region.
		For those Inuit who have lost Inuktitut or who have never been taught the language, TI and the Inuit Family Resource Centre offers Inuktitut language courses.
	www.ontarioinuit.ca /html/language.htm (166 words)

	Inuktitut language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inuktitut is the language of the Inuit people.
		The form of Inuktitut spoken in Greenland is called Greenlandic, or Kalaallisut.
		It is one of the two official languages on the island, the other being Danish.
	www.eurofreehost.com /in/Inuktitut_language.html (150 words)

	World Report 368 -- June 2002 #30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inuktitut is one of three official languages of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, in northeastern Canada, and is the mother tongue of some 28,000 Canadians, mainly the Inuit people of the Canadian Eastern Arctic and northern Quebec.
		Inuktitut has a long history as an oral language but the Inuit people had no written form of it until the late 1800s.
		The Inuktitut New Testament was completed in 1992 and one woman, when reading it for the first time, declared, “This is the first time I could see what was written!” The translation was well received, with 10,000 copies being sold, and some people were reported as staying up all night to read it.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_368/368_30.htm (330 words)

	languagehat.com: LANGUAGE GUESSER.
		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.
		If I were writing a post about the language, of course I would use the correct term and explain what it means, but as a casual reference I'm not going to go to the trouble.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001620.php (1935 words)

	Canku Ota - June 30, 2001 - Inuktitut: The Future of the Language
		The language in five or ten years, I don't think we're going to have it anymore, because the way we're going right now, having no teachers or having teachers that can't teach, we're not going to have it.
		Nunavut's Languages Commissioner, Eva Arreak, hears the complaints of high school students, and thinks Inuktitut is already in trouble.
		Not enough is understood about the north; what languages are spoken,the cost of living, the environment, the cultures, the impact of living in a newly created territory..
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues01/Co06302001/CO_06302001_Inuktitut.htm (1131 words)

	Open Directory - Test: World: Inuktitut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inuktitut Language Reader - Inukshuk, Inuktitut Titirausiq, Keewatin settlement and school names, Pangnirtung 1979, Pitseolak, Qaniujaaqpait, Qikiqtaaluk, Tuulligjuarlu tulugarjuarlu.
		Nunavut Map - Inuktitut - Map of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, in Inuktitut.
		Nunavut Map in Inuktitut - The map of the autonomous region of Nunavut (Canada).
	dmoz.org /Test/World/Inuktitut (193 words)

	Microsoft Local Language Program Quote Sheet
		The Inuktitut language is undergoing a dramatic shift in its official and public usage.
		The National Language Authority of Pakistan is grateful to Microsoft for its great initiative to collaborate in the development of the Urdu language for use in informatics through its Local Language Program.
		We are well aware of how significant it is for users to be able to work with an interface adapted to their native language a factor that becomes even more important in the sphere of public education and science.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/press/2004/mar04/0317LLPQS.mspx (1038 words)

	Inuktitut language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inuktitut proper is spoken by roughly 20,000 people.
		Broadly, Inuktitut proper can be divided into three main dialect groups, and various subgroups: Keewatin - Spoken on the west coast of Hudson Bay.
		Baffin - Spoken on the Islands to the north of Hudson Bay, most notably, as the name suggests, on Baffin Island.
	33beat.com /Inuktitut_language.html (638 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Inuit/Inuktitut WWW Guide
		Alaska Native Language Center - Foremost center for research, documentation and cultivation of the Alaska's 20 native languages.
		Inuktitut - The Language of the Inuit People - Lessons for hypercard, alphabet, cultural information
		Native Languages in the Yukon - While not a link to an Inuit site, this site is about other native languages in the arctic region
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/inuit.html (176 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.
		This page is still under construction--only Cherokee and the Algonquian languages are currently fully completed.
	www.native-languages.org /inuktitut.htm (205 words)

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