Nunavut education minister Paul Quassa announced yesterday in the legislative assembly that the government is looking into using Roman orthography as the standard writing system for Inuktitut in ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Qiallak Nappaaluk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's suddenly a whole lot easier for Inuit to share their thoughts — in their language — in Facebook posts and text messages. The ...

In the early 1950s, a young woman named Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, living in Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, was asked by the Oblate missionary Father Robert Lechat to write down some Inuktitut sentences so that he ...

Inuit leaders have been discussing a unified script since the 1970. But as might be expected with an effort to revamp a written language across 160,000 km, it has been controversial You can save this ...

The story reaches out of an Arctic past stretching back to long before Europeans came, a world when a hunter’s fate was determined by snow and ice, claws and courage. An academic is dusting off a text ...

Inuit in northern Quebec are now able to take vision tests using the Inuktitut writing system, after two Montreal doctors developed eye exam charts in syllabics. Christian El-Hadad, a McGill ...

IQALUIT — There's a new language option on Microsoft's translation software, one spoken primarily by people in the largest territory in Canada. Inuktitut, a dialect of Inuktut used by over 40,000 ...