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 ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

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 ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one generation to the next. Inuktitut is threatened by dominant ...

In January 2021, in close collaboration with the Government of Nunavut, Microsoft announced the launch of Inuktitut in Microsoft Translator. Today, at the start of Uqausirmut Quviasuutiqarniq, an ...

Alexina Kublu, Nunavut’s third languages commissioner and first justice of the peace, recently passed away at age 71.

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

The creators behind a new Inuktitut language app — powered by artificial intelligence (AI) — are on a mission to make learning the language more accessible. Iqaluit-based AingA.I. Indigenous Languages ...

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 ...