In a move reminiscent of laws that changed Quebec forever, the government of Nunavut has introduced language legislation that would enforce the use of Inuktitut in public places from restaurants to schools to offices ( Read more... )

Standardizing the language used by Inuit around the circumpolar world would help to preserve it, the former president of Canada's national Inuit organization says ( Read more... )

Hi! I've just joined the community and wanted to say 'hello'. I'm 100% Polish and I'm an English/American philology student. This year I'm writing a bachelor paper at the end of my studies and I really need your help. The subject of my paper is Inuit culture and tradition, and I have some questions to ask, but there was nobody who'd be willing to ( Read more... )

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In my Livejournal, I recently posted (just for the fun of it) a message that was written in English and Iñupiaq. Although Iñupiaq (spoken in northern Alaska) is slightly different from Inuktitut, the languages are still very similar. The message isn't much... but just thought I'd see what everyone here thinks (and the grammar or vocabulary is ( Read more... )

Some Quizilla or similar test told me my personality ^predestinates^ me to speak Inuktitut. I found it interesting enough to share;)

Hi, I'm the moderator of the Greenlandic community kalaallitnunaat. Please note I deleted the missed-spelt "Kalallit_Nunaat" community. I'm such a fool. Please change your membership to the new community. Thanks, and sorry for the waste of space here.

Hello, I stumbled upon this rather quiet community, and thought I'd join in; languages are a fascination of mine, and so is the Arctic.

Anyway, I was wondering: how do you say "happy birthday" in Inuktitut? Is there a happy birthday song that goes along with it?

:)

It seems there's not a lot of action here... i've been watching for awhile. it's true inuktitut data is not easy to find... lately i've been lucky as i chose to study and work on it for my syntactic typology class. so i may be posting here over the next while ( Read more... )

I was listening to CBC Iqaluit about a month ago, and there were these two crazy guys who were playing music in Inuktitut, and saying stuff in Inuktitut and English. Not 100% sure about their Inuktitut, but I know that half the stuff they said in English made absolutely no sense at all. Everybody laughed at them a bunch. It was late in the ( Read more... )