November 08, 2004

• Wow! This is really cool for many reasons. This allows a unique solution for preserving the language and culture, and allowing for innovation at the same time. 'Bout time!
• This is very cool, all native people everywhere should have a way to preserve their language. For those interested in assisting in the preservation of endangered languages you can go here.
• i wish it were feasible that every endangered language could do something like this. the reality is, of all the (approximately 60) indigenous languages in canada, only three are likely to survive the next century, and inuktitut (the inuit language) is one of those. many of the others are far from having the resources to do this kind of thing.
• This is a great post, thank you! I've always been interested in language preservation, as well as the Inuit, so you hit all my geeky buttons. ;)
• This is very cool, but now I need to load the font on my computer, because all I see are little boxes :) (except for images, of course).
• Very neat post. I imagine that the aboriginal people of New Zealand and Australia face challenges and something like this could really help. Sometimes, ain't the internets grand?
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• From the CBC, a flash presentation of ancient Inuit legends
• Paging user kuujjuarapik: please pick up the Arctic White courtesy phone.
• The Inuits are one of the better faring aboriginal groups in Canada. My cousin is helping build city roads in the Quebec North. He's worked with Inuits and Crees, and he says your average Inuit is way less fucked up than your average Cree.
• When I was a kid, my dad brought back an Inuit phone book from a trip to Frobisher Bay. I thought it was the most alien thing, with the usual Bell cover on front and script inside that was even stranger and more beautiful than Japanese. Thanks for the link.