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<P><FONT size=2>Researcher: written Inuktitut still “symbolic” only in Nunavut<BR><BR>“There seem to be a vicious circle that keeps the status of Inuktitut<BR>at the level of a symbolic language.”<BR>JIM BELL<BR><BR>Despite its official legal status, the Inuit language will never<BR>become a functional language of work unless more people learn how to<BR>read and write it, a Laval University researcher said in a recently<BR>completed PhD thesis and other articles. ”Inuktitut literacy has lost<BR>its footing among most bilingual Nunavummiut,” linguist Aurélie Hot<BR>said in an article published last year in the Journal of Canadian<BR>Studies. Between 2005 and 2007, Hot interviewed 11 people in Igloolik,<BR>18 people in Iqaluit, as well as community leaders, government<BR>employees and elders living in the two communities.<BR><BR>Full story:<BR><A href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/8756_researcher_written_inuktitut_still_symbolic_only_in_nunavut/">http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/8756_researcher_written_inuktitut_still_symbolic_only_in_nunavut/</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>