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Residents of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, discussed why they use Inuktitut or English in different circumstances. Interviews with 50 Inuit adults in Iqaluit inquired about their language usage with six categories of people: their parents, children, spouse, siblings, friends, and fellow workers....
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1028.3424 2023-05-15T16:55:09+02:00 AUTHOR Dorais, Louis-Jacques TITLE Why Do They Speak Inuktitut? Language and Identity in The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1028.3424 http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED473889.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1028.3424 http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED473889.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED473889.pdf Why Do They Speak Inuktitut text ftciteseerx 2016-10-30T00:06:13Z Residents of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, discussed why they use Inuktitut or English in different circumstances. Interviews with 50 Inuit adults in Iqaluit inquired about their language usage with six categories of people: their parents, children, spouse, siblings, friends, and fellow workers. No gender differences were found, although some answers varied with age. Almost all respondents spoke only Inuktitut with their parents. About half spoke Inuktitut to their children all or most of the time, with respondents over 50 being the least likely to speak English to their children. Younger parents tended to use mostly Inuktitut with preschool children, but used mostly English or both languages with older children. Dual-language use between spouses was related to younger age and linguistically mixed marriages. Spouses who spoke mostly Inuktitut to each other were older or did so to model the language for their children. Similarly, older respondents were more likely to speak only Inuktitut to Text inuit inuktitut Iqaluit Nunavut Unknown Nunavut |
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Residents of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, discussed why they use Inuktitut or English in different circumstances. Interviews with 50 Inuit adults in Iqaluit inquired about their language usage with six categories of people: their parents, children, spouse, siblings, friends, and fellow workers. No gender differences were found, although some answers varied with age. Almost all respondents spoke only Inuktitut with their parents. About half spoke Inuktitut to their children all or most of the time, with respondents over 50 being the least likely to speak English to their children. Younger parents tended to use mostly Inuktitut with preschool children, but used mostly English or both languages with older children. Dual-language use between spouses was related to younger age and linguistically mixed marriages. Spouses who spoke mostly Inuktitut to each other were older or did so to model the language for their children. Similarly, older respondents were more likely to speak only Inuktitut to |
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