Appendix Four Inuit First and Home Languages in Inuit nunaat (Canada) in 2006

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 3
6. The Eskaleut Family of Languages 7
7. The Inuit Language 27
8. The Nunavik Dialect of Inuktitut 66
9. The Prehistory of the Inuit Language 88
10. Historical Sources and Linguistic Change 106
11. Semantics, Neology, and Oral Literature 135
12. Literacy and Formal Education 172
13. Language Contact and Bilingualism 215
14. The Current Status of the Inuit Language 235
15. Conclusion: Language and Identity in the Arctic 261
16. The Possessive Noun Declension (Nunavik Inuktitut) 279
17. The Grammatical Endings of Verbs (Nunavik Inuktitut) 283
18. Categories of Lexical Affixes* with Nunavik Inuktitut Examples 289
19. Inuit First and Home Languages in Inuit nunaat (Canada) in 2006 292
20. Notes 297
21. References 343
22. Index 387