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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another nameI have read is "Inuk Sign Language",
which appears in Jamie MacDougall's paper available at <A
href="http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/rs/rep-rap/2000/rr00_17/index.html. In">http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/rs/rep-rap/2000/rr00_17/index.html.
In</A> another paper with a very similar title he has used the name "Inuit Sign
Language", see <A
href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3711/is_/ai_n8941972">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3711/is_/ai_n8941972</A>.
So, I suspect they all refer to the same language, but I haven't read the
articles in detail to determine that. Further, even if MacDougall uses them
interchangeably, someone else might be using the terms to refer to two different
sign languages, or there may be more variation from place to place than has been
documented yet.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Incidentally, "Inuk" and "Inuit" are autonyms used
in the spoken languages of the area (sometimes called "Eskimo" languages but
this term is offensive to some people), and are cognate terms. "Inuktitut"
is from the same language as "Inuk" and is a derived term, but I don't know
exactly what either means (e.g. maybe noun vs. adjective, or people vs.
language). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would be good to settle once and for all how
many indigenous sign languages there are among the Inuit/Inuk/etc. At one
point, the Ethnologue actually had an entry for "Eskimo Sign Language" but took
it out in the mid-1990s because we couldn't at that time verify the existence of
the language. Now the evidence has appeared for one or possibly more
indigenous sign languages in the American Arctic. Once the situation
becomes clear, I would suggest that someone prepare a proposal for the ISO 639-3
standard to establish one or more three-letter identifying codes, which can then
be used to help avoid this sort of confusion. I'd be happy to help if
you're interested, Joke.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Albert Bickford</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SIL International</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=J.M.Schuit@uva.nl href="mailto:J.M.Schuit@uva.nl">Schuit, J.M.</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:09
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [SLLING-L] Wikipedia's list of
sign languages: who?</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hello
all,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Recently I googled an Inuktitut
term that was supposed to refer to sign language, and Google gave me
directions to a Wikipedia article with a List of Sign Languages. Does anyone
know who wrote this? It’s for this reason:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To my amazement, this article
listed Inuit Sign Language as well as Inuktitut Sign Language, each with a
different Inuktitut translation (or I guess it is an Inuktitut translation as
I do not know the language). As I am working on a description of (parts of)
the Inuit Sign Language used in Canada, I would be interested to know to which
languages the labels Inuit SL and Inuktitut SL apply, and where the Inuktitut
translation comes from. Does anyone on the SLLing List know who wrote this
Wikipedia article? I would like to ask him/her where the information about
these two languages came from, as I had not come across it
before.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is the link: <A
title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I hope anyone can inform
me!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Joke Schuit</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=NL
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Universiteit van
Amsterdam</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=NL><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Spuistraat 210</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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