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	Alaska Native Languages -- Inupiaq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Inupiaq is spoken throughout much of northern Alaska and is closely related to the Canadian Inuit dialects and the Greenlandic dialects, which may collectively be called "Inuit" or Eastern Eskimo, distinct from Yupik or Western Eskimo.
		North Alaskan Inupiaq comprises the North Slope dialect spoken along the Arctic Coast from Barter Island to Kivalina, and the Malimiut dialect found primarily around Kotzebue Sound and the Kobuk River.
		Seward Peninsula Inupiaq comprises the Qawiaraq dialect found principally in Teller and in the southern Seward Peninsula and Norton Sound area, and the Bering Strait dialect spoken in the villages surrounding Bering Strait and on the Diomede Islands.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/langs/i.html (325 words)

	Native Village of Kotzebue Alaska, Kotzebue IRA, NIKAITCHUAT ILISAGVIAT, Qikiktagruk
		Though both forms of developing understanding of a language are important and have their place, comparative studies of second language acquisition programs and second language learning programs consistently show that acquisition-centered programs are far more effective in developing actual communicative competence in second languages than are programs that emphasize formal language learning.
		This approach is in contrast to the language lab and textbook oriented audiolingual and grammar-translation methods of language of used with older students and adults, which are beyond both the comprehension and patience of young children.
		Language immersion is a method of second language instruction that makes use of the language being taught, the "target language", to teach.
	kotzebueira.org /nikaitchuat.html (2493 words)

	Scientists at CMU join forces to create a program to preserve vanishing languages
		Mapudungun and Inupiaq are just two examples of the thousands of languages considered endangered; the Worldwatch Institute last year estimated that 50 percent to 90 percent of the world's 6,800 languages might disappear by the end of the century.
		Knowing the language of your ancestors provides a feeling of satisfaction and self-worth, she said, that is reflected in other school work.
		The Inupiaq language is attuned to the Arctic environment, where little distinction is made in the winter between the frozen, snow-covered sea and the flat, featureless, snow-covered land.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20020114language0114p2.asp (1210 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut Language Family
		Languages of the World is brought to you by the National Virtual Translation Center.
		In Canada, Inuktitut is recognized as the official language of Nunavut Territory (along with English and French) and the Northwest Territories (along with English, French, and several other indigenous languages).
		All Eskimo-Aleut languages are polysynthetic, i.e., grammatical functions are represented by numerous suffixes attached to roots and stems.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/october/EskimoAleut.html (965 words)

	Revitalizing Indigenous Languages: Introduction
		Similarly, for language revival efforts to be successful, children need to feel that it is "their" indigenous language and that speaking the language makes them a member of an important and worthwhile group.
		Scott Palmer (1997) emphasized at the 1997 symposium the role of the language of the workplace in the survival of indigenous languages, and stopping at conversational proficiency implies that those speaking indigenous languages in the workplace will be relegated to lower paying jobs that do not require literacy.
		All five of the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages symposiums have highlighted the fact that school-based efforts at indigenous language revitalization need to be supported by community efforts and vice versa and that it is critically important for parents to use their indigenous language with their young children.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/RIL_Intro.html (5941 words)

	GeoNative - Alaskan and Siberian Eskimos - Inupiaq - Yupik - Aleut
		GeoNative - Alaskan and Siberian Eskimos - Inupiaq - Yupik - Aleut
		The language is a distant relative of the Inuit languages.
		Ipar Alaskako Inuit edo Inupiat herria, Inupiaq hizkuntzaz mintzo da (ipar-ekialdeko Kanadan ere badaude): 3.500 hiztun, 8.000 laguneko talde etnikoan.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/inupiaq.html (858 words)

	Inuit
		Students who spoke their native Inupiaq language were punished and made to stand with their faces to the corner or by having their mouths washed out with soap.
		Its roots are in the Ural-Altaic languages of Finland, Hungary, and Turkey.
		Language instruction in school, as noted, was for many years solely in English, with native languages discouraged.
	www.everyculture.com /multi/Ha-La/Inuit.html (6466 words)

	Language Reference Page
		The current languages are mostly those used for my doctoral work, but I intend to continue adding languages as I have time and as I find good sources of text in electronic form.
		Klingon is a language that was developed for the Star Trek series of movies, and is now used by a small but enthusiastic group of fans.
		Manx is officially classified as an extinct language, though efforts are underway to revive it on the Isle of Man, and there are reportedly around 200 adult speakers.
	complingone.georgetown.edu /~langid/ref_langs.html (2141 words)

	Address by Doreen Spear
		We Inupiaq are a nation of people occupying the circumpolar arctic from Siberia through Alaska and Canada to Greenland.
		Among our entire international Inupiaq community, we of the North Slope are the first Inupiaq who have achieved true self-government, with the formation of the North Slope borough.
		The main barrier between the younger generations and the Inupiaq culture is the absence of an educational system that completely satisfies our cultural well-being.
	www.firstalaskans.org /513.cfm?textonly=yes (1183 words)

	NWArctic
		Minnie is representative of the first Inupiaq language teachers who began to teach in the schools in 1972 when the bilingual programs were implemented in the Alaskan schools.
		She was part of a wonderful group of enthusiastic, fun Inupiaq language and culture teachers who took great pride and delight in learning to read and write in their native language.
		A beautiful language that had been used to communicate and verbalize concepts from a world view that existed for many years and helped the Inupiat to survive in the arctic.
	www.nwarctic.org /bilingual_speech.html (5056 words)

	Welcome to Arctic Blast 2001 - A to Z
		These various languages are used for the first year of school in some parts of Siberia, for religious instruction and education in schools under Inuit control in Alaska, and in schools and communications media in Canada and Greenland.
		The Inupiaq and Yupik languages have an immense number of suffixes that are added to a smaller number of root words.
		Because these languages are among the most complex and difficult in the world, few explorers or traders have learned them; instead, they relied on a jargon composed of Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian, and Inupiaq and Yupik words.
	arcticblast.polarhusky.com /vocal (359 words)

	Iñupiaq People - Arctic People & Cultures - All Things Arctic
		Although their language is similar to the Yup’ik, the Iñupiaq are more closely related to the Inuit of Canada and Greenland.
		With the increasing contact between Alaska, Canada and Greenland, the "Inupiq" and "Inupiaq" languages are often used interchangeably.
		The Inupiaq are one of the few indigenous people presently continuing to hunt whales.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /people/inupiaq.aspx (474 words)

	Arctic Culture
		In Alaska, these peoples are known as Inupiaq and Yup'ik (Eskimo); in Canada and Greenland, they are Inupiaq and Kalaalit (Inuit), respectively.* Non-Arctic peoples racially and ethnically related to the Eskimos are the Aleuts.
		Although their language is similar to that of the Yup’ik, the Inupiaq are more closely related to their counterparts in Canada and Greenland.
		Their main language (Inupiaq) spans from Norton Sound on the west coast of Alaska, across northern Alaska to Canada and Greenland, where it is called Inuktitut.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h994.html (885 words)

	Arctic - Maciej Swulinski
		The city of Barrow is one of the largest Inupiaq (Eskimo) settlements in Alaska.
		Whaling is now very strictly regulated, but fathers in Inupiaq families teach their sons the secrets of harpooning.
		The Inupiaq language is spoken from northeastern Siberia to Greenland.
	www.swulinski.com /travels/AK-Arctic.html (267 words)

	Inuit IV. Language and Literature
		The languages of the Inuit peoples constitute a subfamily of the Eskimo-Aleut language family.
		The Inupiaq and Yupik languages have an immense number of suffixes that are added to a smaller number of root words; these suffixes function similarly to verb endings, case endings, prepositional phrases, and even whole clauses in the English language.
		The Inupiaq and Yupik languages themselves have a rich oral literature, and a number of Greenland authors have written in Greenland Inupiaq.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/inuit4.htm (355 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.
		As a complement to our Inuktitut language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Inuit and various aspects of their society.
	www.native-languages.org /inuktitut.htm (320 words)

	Inupiat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Inuit Circumpolar Conference, a group representing indigenous peoples of the Arctic, has made the case that climate change represents a threat to their human rights.
		Inupiaq groups often have a name ending in "miut." One example is the Nunamiut, a generic term for inland Inupiaq caribou hunters.
		During a period of starvation and influenza (brought by European whaling crews) most of these moved to the coast or other parts of Alaska between 1890 and 1910.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inupiaq (387 words)

	Elem School
		We have so much humor in our language which is being lost unfortunately; it can't be translated into English.
		The effect on Native language speaking ability was dramatic.
		While 91 percent of Native adults in the Inupiat settlement region learned their Native language as a child, the percent dropped rapidly among those 55 to 64 (87%), 45-54 (83%), 35-44 (55%), 25-34 (45%), and 18-24 (38%).
	www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu /projects/Living_Conditions/elem_school.htm (1149 words)

	C:\PROGRAM FILES\SOFTQUAD\HOTMETAL PRO\gifs\campsivu.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Change had come so quickly to the area, that few of the younger people knew the Inupiaq language and few know the of the Inupiaq values that helped the people survive thousands of years in a harsh environment.
		In 1983, Camp Sivunniiqvik was formed as a way for the elders to pass the Inupiaq culture on to the younger generations.
		Through the Inupiat Iliqusiat, children are taught knowledge of language, knowledge of family tree, sharing, humility respect for others, love for children, cooperation, hard work, respect for elders, respect for nature, avoidance of conflict, family roles, humor, spirituality domestic skills, hunter success, and responsibility to tribe.
	www.alaska.net /~aknafws/camp.html (590 words)

	1998.12.17 DAB1675 Silakkuagvik Communications, Inc. v. Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
		The Native American Languages Act authorizes the Secretary to award grants "to be used to assist Native Americans in ensuring the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages." 42 U.S.C. 2991b-3(a).
		Since Appellant's proposed grant was for the purpose of ensuring the survival of the Inupiaq language traditionally spoken by Alaska Natives, ANA logically limited the community to be served to the Alaska Native community.
		While ANA found this insufficient to establish that she was a member of the Inupiaq community, a tribal government has the right to define its own membership for tribal purposes.
	www.os.dhhs.gov /dab/decisions/dab1675.html (2089 words)

	Press: The Iñupiaq Supercomputer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The whalers I spoke to all used this precise language.
		He understands the language (Iñupiaq has word endings and inflections that reveal the source and certainty of a statement, and it is much more specific in describing animals and arctic phenomenon).
		Translation is difficult between any two languages; here translation also is needed between cultures and ways of thinking about the world.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/document097a.html (3939 words)

	English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In this job she was given the opportunity to learn a lot of valuable lessons from the elders by observing their dances and listening to their stories.
		All of the elders and a few adults are the only people who speak the Inupiaq language.
		The NANA museum is an important member in the Inupiaq history but is at risk of going bankrupt because of financial concerns, the excellence of the tours, and the diminishing elder and youth connections.
	www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us /portfolios/dawnub/english.htm (1787 words)

	Give the Gift of Language - North Slope Borough School District
		The Inupiaq teachers in schools on the North Slope are one dedicated group of individuals.
		Greymorning founded Strengthening Indigenous Languages and Cultures, a national non profit organization whose purpose is to aid in the teaching and perpetuation of indigenous languages and cultures some years ago.
		At the conclusion of the workshop in time-honored Inupiaq fashion the group "adopted" Neyooxet by bestowing him with the Inupiaq name of Nuyaagiq as chosen by Ilisagvik College assistant professor of Inupiaq Studies Fannie Akpik.
	www.nsbsd.org /site/index.cfm/1,1,404,html (1086 words)

	Sharing Our Pathways Volume 7, Issue 2
		She was part of a wonderful group of enthusiastic, fun Iñupiaq language and culture teachers who took great pride and delight in learning to read and write in their native language.
		A beautiful language that had been used to communicate and verbalize concepts from a world view that existed for many years and helped the Iñupiat to survive in the Arctic.
		As coordinator, she is responsible for overall language programming for the IATC including organizing community classes for Athabascan languages represented within Tanana Chiefs Conference region.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /sop/SOPv7i2.html (7333 words)

	Inuit - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The family of languages spoken by the Inuit.
		The preferred term for the native peoples of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland is now Inuit, and the use of Eskimo in referring to these peoples is often considered offensive, especially in Canada.
		Inuit, the plural of the Inuit word inuk, "human being," is less exact in referring to the peoples of northern Alaska, who speak dialects of the closely related Inupiaq language, and it is inappropriate when used in reference to speakers of Yupik, the Eskimoan language branch of western Alaska and the Siberian Arctic.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/i/i0211000.html (135 words)

	Alaska's Natives - Maciej Swulinski
		The Inupiaq (Eskimos) settled in Alaska's Arctic region.
		Their village sites were chosen for availability of food sources like seal, walrus, whale and polar bear.
		The Inupiaq people have not had a written system for centuries.
	www.swulinski.com /travels/AlaskaNatives.html (405 words)

	Honoring Alaska's Indigenous Literature
		It says that Inupiaq language was traditionally an oral language and only recently became a written language as well.
		English language was introduced in the 1800's when the commercial whalers made their way up north.
		When school was introduced, the students were punished for speaking their Inupiaq language.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /IKS/HAIL/WhaleSnow.html (916 words)

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