ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ is a podcast on language with linguist Jaypeetee Arnakak.

 

Episode 1: Interview with Monica Ittusardjuat

Monica talks about her residential school experience leading to her work as a teacher and, finally, as a highly respected Inuit language and cultural expert and advocate.

Episode 2 interview with Jeela Palluq-Cloutier and Stephane Cloutier

Jeela and Stephane talk about their personal decision and experience to learn each other’s language at home, about different dialects from Alaska (Yupik and Inupiaq) to Kalaallit Nunaat and how they’re all of one language family.

Episode 3 interview with Louis-Jacques Dorais

Louis-Jacques Dorais is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, Université Laval. He talks about how he learned Inuktitut (which he speaks fluently) and some of his work in historical linguistics and sociological aspects of Inuit language use.

Skills

Posted on

February 8, 2021