Sharing the Iñupiaq Language

The Alaska Office of the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center hosted an Iñupiaq language workshop in January 2011, bringing together eight fluent speakers of Alaska's northernmost Native tongue for four days of intensive discussions about NMNH and NMAI objects in the Smithsonian exhibition, Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska at the Anchorage Museum. One goal of the project is to document a language that is now spoken fluently by fewer than 600 people, 92% of them over the age of 65. Another is to create language teaching videos for use in the North Alaskan schools. This project represents one of the Arctic Studies Center's major initiatives under the NMNH Recovering Voices program.
For more information, go to www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/ala...

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  • @arandomzoomer4837
    @arandomzoomer48372 жыл бұрын

    Something really cool is how universal sports, and often some form of "ball game" is, typically with some kind of specific rules and design put into how it's played. I hear the Aztecs had their own ball game as well.

  • @georgejohnson6835
    @georgejohnson68353 ай бұрын

    Good to hear Gram Faye speaking Kingikmiuttun even i think she laughed during discussion. their workshops aee fun for them azhigah summa

  • @palmapanfu
    @palmapanfu11 жыл бұрын

    That really lookalike the Chukchi ball :) she's right.

  • @keegster7167
    @keegster71676 жыл бұрын

    I can't find anything about Inupiaq on the website.

  • @Rodrigo-wc6iy

    @Rodrigo-wc6iy

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is a song from Brother Bear in inupiaq language

  • @linuxgirl_
    @linuxgirl_4 жыл бұрын

    The Smithsonian representative should learn to pronounce Inupiaq. It isn't in-OO-pee-at, but sort of a cross between IN-oo-pak and IN-oo-pyak. The accent is on the first syllable, not the second, and the "i" is almost silent. It isn't pronounced as an extra syllable as he is saying it, but instead modifies the "a" sound to give almost a "y" sound before it, although it is very short. This also goes for the word Inupiat: it is pronounced somewhere in between IN-oo-pat and IN-oo-pyat.

  • @debbieatuk8349

    @debbieatuk8349

    Жыл бұрын

    Where did you learn Inupiaq? are you a fluent speaker?

  • @georgejohnson6835

    @georgejohnson6835

    3 ай бұрын

    up north sound different than bering strait. even Kauwerangmiuttun sound different than Kingikmiuttun. ask Evik Okbaok he kangisqsi and good resource for culture... Koyukmiut and Unalaklikmiut sound so different even than Fish river's i can't pronounce alot of theirs.... Ukiuvokmiut and Inaliqmiut stress so different growing up in Wales i always thought Diomede relatives and King Island relatives visiting were nuunuqing me... scolding... when i went to Lavrentiya in Siberia I was scolded because i responded to them in Inupiaq where our host families are Inupiaq russians the majority were yupiget

  • @dingochill8871
    @dingochill88716 жыл бұрын

    Hope is cheap how can we restore the atmosphere? Ive met an Inupiaq, cracked, shattered but someone trying here making it, like a Bel Air coyote. everyone is worlds apart