A historical and anthropological overview of Inuit peoples through the study of language.
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English Pages 409 Year 2010
Table of contents :
Contents
Maps and Tables
Preface
Introduction
1 The Eskaleut Family of Languages
2 The Inuit Language
3 The Nunavik Dialect of Inuktitut
4 The Prehistory of the Inuit Language
5 Historical Sources and Linguistic Change
6 Semantics, Neology, and Oral Literature
7 Literacy and Formal Education
8 Language Contact and Bilingualism
9 The Current Status of the Inuit Language
10 Conclusion: Language and Identity in the Arctic
APPENDICES
1 The Possessive Noun Declension (Nunavik Inuktitut)
2 The Grammatical Endings of Verbs (Nunavik Inuktitut)
3 Categories of Lexical Affixes with Nunavik Inuktitut Examples
4 Inuit First and Home Languages in Inuit nunaat (Canada) in 2006
Notes
References
Index
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