News: Inuit urged to standardize language
Standardizing the language used by Inuit around the circumpolar world would help to preserve it, the former president of Canada's national Inuit organization says.
Speaking to delegates attending the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Barrow, Alaska, on Tuesday, Jose Kusugak made a passionate plea for a standard language and writing system in the Arctic.
Inuit from Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia are at the gathering.
Kusugak, who led the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said Inuit speak one language from Alaska to Greenland, with many of the same sounds in the different dialects.
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Speaking to delegates attending the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Barrow, Alaska, on Tuesday, Jose Kusugak made a passionate plea for a standard language and writing system in the Arctic.
Inuit from Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia are at the gathering.
Kusugak, who led the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said Inuit speak one language from Alaska to Greenland, with many of the same sounds in the different dialects.
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