Foreign Language Study Native American Languages
Inuit Languages and Dialects
Inuit Uqausiqatigiit
- Publisher
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2023
- Category
- Native American Languages, General, Indigenous Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897568514
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897568835
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $23.95
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Description
This is a staggering Pan-Arctic study of linguistic and dialectal differences, from Alaska to the Canadian Arctic to Greenland.
This new edition of wide-ranging work by renowned linguist Louis-Jacques Dorais is a study of the distribution and main characteristics of the following dialects: the Eskaleut family, Aleut and the Yupik languages, Inuit dialects, Alaskan Inupiq, Western Canadian Inuktun, Eastern Canadian Inuktitut (Kivalliq, Aivilik, North and South Baffin, Nunavik, and Labrador), and Greenlandic Kalaallisut.
Dorais includes dialectology, language history, and present-day situations to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the similarities and differences between Inuktitut dialects across northern North America and Greenland.
About the author
Louis-Jacques Dorais has researched Inuit culture, language, and society since 1965. From 1972 to 2011, he taught anthropology at
Université Laval in Quebec City, and is now Professor Emeritus. In 1991, he and Leah Otak conducted interviews on knowledge and identity in Igloolik for a project on the social role of Inuit teachers. Among other titles, Dorais has published a linguistic description of Inuktitut as it is spoken in Igloolik (Iglulingmiut Uqausingit: The Inuit Language of Igloolik NWT, 1978), as well as a general introduction to the Inuit language (The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic, 2010).
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Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic
Language in NUNAVUT: Discourse and Identity in the Baffin Region
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Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community
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Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community
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