in the news

[s.t. bischoff]

This may be of interest to some...from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/13/greenland.inuit.language/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Scientist lives as Inuit for a year to save disappearing language

*London, England (CNN)* -- A British anthropologist is setting out on a
year-long stay with a small community in Greenland in an ambitious attempt
to document its dying language and traditions.

Stephen Pax Leonard will live with the Inughuit in north-west Greenland, the
world's most northernmost people, and record their conversations and
story-telling traditions to try and preserve their language.

The Inughuit, who speak Inuktun, a "pure" Inuit dialect, are under
increasing political and climactic pressure to move south, says Leonard.
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