Ancient Language

‘It’s a part of who we are’: Inuit work to revitalize endangered dialect

A group of Inuit women gather around a table over cups of coffee and speak to each other in a language that is expected to vanish over the next two generations. The women live in Cambridge Bay in western Nunavut. They’re speaking Inuinnaqtun, a dialect of Inuktut, while recording a podcast for the Kitikmeot Heritage …

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‘Mayan Girls’ Step Forward As Next Generation Of Translators Of An Ancient Language

By MADELINE FOX It can be hard to find a truly quiet place in the Lake Worth-based Guatemalan-Maya Center. Just inside one door, case workers and other staff answer phones and talk clients through paperwork, immigration processes and other services. A long, narrow room on the ground floor has chairs along one wall that are often …

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