NUNAVUT LANGUAGE REFORMS AIM TO USE INUKTITUK TO BUILD A PAN-ARCTIC NATION
July 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND LEAH GERMAIN
AN AMBITIOUS plan is being unrolled across the Arctic - using native Inuit languages and their dialects to build a new cultural nation. Its goal is building linguistic links between the 150,000 Inuit of Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Siberia so that they can read the same newspapers, websites and books and understand films, television and radio, all in their own indigenous language. By agreeing some common rules on writing and maybe in future grammar, the plan, as discussed by an international body - the Inuit Circumpolar Council ...
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