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MARC recordResearcher: written Inuktitut still "symbolic" only in Nunavut / Jim Bell.
| Title: | Researcher: written Inuktitut still "symbolic" only in Nunavut / Jim Bell. |
| Author(s): | Bell, Jim. |
| Date: | 2010. |
| In: | Nunatsiaq News. (2010.), Vol. 37(51) (2010) |
| Abstract: | Discusses recent findings by Laval University researcher that most bilingual speakers in Iqaluit and Igloolik are more comfortable writing and reading English than Inuktitut, and that Inuktitut literacy appears to be losing footing among bilingual Nunavummiut. Cites following reasons: most children stop learning to read syllabics after Grade 3; virtually all Inuktitut materials are (sometimes unreliably) translated from English originals; and most Inuit language reading materials consist of boring government documents. |
| Notes: | Nunatsiaq News. Vol. 37(51) :5, 24 (2010). |
| Keywords: | 323.1 -- National and ethnic minorities: Inuit. 80 -- General questions of linguistics and literature. Philology. 316 -- Sociology. 809.475 -- Eskimo-Aleut languages. J -- Social sciences. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*41) -- Canada. (*440.2) -- Nunavut. |
| SPRI record no.: | 190330 |
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