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Inuit perspectives on sustaining bilingualism in Nunavut [PDF]
, 2009 This article presents an Inuit perspective on how bilingualism and biliteracy may be achieved and sustained in Nunavut. The Nunavut Literacy Council interviewed “language role models” (i.e., Inuit who are admired for their skill in acquiring, using, and ...
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Models for Inuktitut-English word alignment [PDF]
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts - ParaText '05, 2005 This paper presents a set of techniques for bitext word alignment, optimized for a language pair with the characteristics of Inuktitut-English. The resulting systems exploit cross-lingual affinities at the sublexical level of syllables and substrings, as well as regular patterns of transliteration and the tendency towards monotonicity of alignment. Our
Charles Schafer, Elliott Franco Drábek
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Knowledge Building in an Aboriginal Context
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009 The report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996), the Kelowna Accord announced in 2005 (five-billion dollars) followed by its demise in 2006, and the settlement in 2006 for Aboriginal survivors of residential schools (1.9 billion dollars),
Alexander McAuley
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Eurocentric roadblocks to school change in Nunavut [PDF]
, 2009 Sixty years after its inception, schooling in the eastern Arctic remains predominantly based on Euro-Canadian values, curricula and pedagogy, and privileging English over Inuit languages.
Berger, Paul
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Labrador Inuttitut: Speaking into the future [PDF]
, 2005 This paper discusses the issue of language loss in northern Labrador Inuttitut. Like many communities across northern Canada, Labrador is facing the possible complete loss of Inuktitut, demonstrated by the fact that almost no children speak it as a first
Andersen, Catharyn, Johns, Alana
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Language, culture and community among urban Inuit in Ottawa [PDF]
, 2008 Cet article traite des expériences sociales et des besoins d’une communauté urbaine inuit à Ottawa. Notre recherche s’appuie sur les données d’entrevues recueillies lors d’un partenariat de recherche avec le Centre pour enfants inuit d’Ottawa.
Patrick, Donna, Tomiak, Julie-Ann
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A Structural Overview of Inuktitut [PDF]
Meta, 2002 This structural overview includes a brief discussion of Inuktitut as a polysynthetic agglutinative language. It outlines affiliations with other language families and lists the sub-branches and dialects of the language. The phonological and morphophonemic systems of Inuktitut are described. The central morphology of the language is
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“We don’t have the words in Inuktitut”: Pharmacy translations in Nunavut, Canada
Cogent Social Sciences, 2017 In efforts to preserve and revitalize Aboriginal languages, recently introduced language legislation in Nunavut, Canada requires the availability of all essential services in Inuit languages.
Sandra J. Romain
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Is Inuktitut a morphological argument language? [PDF]
, 2009 In the following I will discuss grammatical structures of Inuktitut, an Eskimo language spoken in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Inuktitut is a polysynthetic language exhibiting an exceedingly elaborate verbal inflectional system including polypersonal ...
Nowak, Elke
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Komplexe Wortstrukturen: Komposition, Inkorporation, Polysynthese [PDF]
, 2015 Zugleich gedruckt erschienen im Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin unter der ISBN 3-7983-1943-X, ISSN 0343-8694.Die beiden Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes behandeln aus jeweils unterschiedlichen Perspektiven die ‚wortbildenden‘ Verfahren Komposition ...
Lühr, Rosemarie, Nowak, Elke
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