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akprocks
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26 February 2011 at 3:25am | IP Logged

Pretty much all of the successful projects such as Welsh, Cornish, Hebrew and Greenlandic have a committee, so why should Iñupiaq, my pet peeve, be an exception. Here are my ideas so far:

1) Introduce modern Iñupiaq equivalents to English words, such as electricity, computer, hamburger and books

2) Introduce these phrases to the general North Slope public by having a free printed and virtual newsletter and having the words on the local radio.

3) Have weekly meetings to vote on specific grammar points and new words to make things democratic.

4) Keeping the mixing of Iñupiaq and English from happening, this includes using post-bases in English words such as; 'That was a -pak line.' 'Yeah there over inuinaq people.' (-pak is big and inuinaq is twenty) This is terrible, terrible grammar, is all too commonly heard and doesn't help the younger generation one bit; it messes their Iñupiaq and English grammar

You don't even need to be interested, any more ideas can help greatly. I really think this is feasible for North Alaska and I have the connections that can help kick start it.

Edited by akprocks on 26 February 2011 at 4:03am
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hjordis
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26 February 2011 at 6:24am | IP Logged

Don't forget to apply number 4 to number 1. Use native roots for the new words, not English ones. But you're right, I'm not really interested, so I don't have any new suggestions.
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leosmith
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26 February 2011 at 4:46pm | IP Logged

akprocks wrote:

Pretty much all of the successful projects such as Welsh, Cornish, Hebrew and Greenlandic have
a committee

I don't get it. What's the Welsh project, for example?
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akprocks
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26 February 2011 at 6:32pm | IP Logged

leosmith wrote:

akprocks wrote:

Pretty much all of the successful projects such as Welsh, Cornish, Hebrew and Greenlandic have
a committee

I don't get it. What's the Welsh project, for example?

Welsh increased it's percentage of speaker dramatically by having a institution to regulate and promote Welsh: http://www.byig-wlb.org.uk/Pages/Hafan.aspx

The Cornish board helped revive the language from one or two to over a thousand speakers with even some native ones too boot, with the language board backing the project as well as creating a council to standardize it and modernize it.

Even (or should I say especially) High German has a board to keep the language pure and modern.

Edited by akprocks on 26 February 2011 at 6:39pm

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