Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...
Nunavut's Kitikmeot Inuit Association is offering courses to get young people in the region learning and using Inuit languages, in an effort to keep them alive. Inuinnaqtun is the Inuit language ...
Richard Compton receives funding in the form of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Transmission and Knowledge of ...
Join Moderator Tiffany Ayalik and speakers James Dommek Jr., Byron Nicholai and Julia Ogina for a conversation about the past, present and future of Inuit music with four practicing artists. Alyson ...
It's an often-repeated "fact", and an oft-debunked "fact", that Inuit languages have over 50 words for "snow". But is there any truth to the idea that the language has more words than elsewhere to ...
Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy In Taloyoak, Nunavut, ...
He worked with a team for 34 years to translate both the Old and New Testament, an accomplishment that prompted the response: ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic — the ...