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cover of episode How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut

How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut

2025/3/24
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Younger generations in Nunavut today are less likely to grow up immersed in Inuktut. At a language school in Iqaluit, Inuit adults who didn’t grow up speaking Inuktut now have the chance to learn it as a second language at the Pirurvik Centre. By learning the words for kinship terminology, they’re also discovering things about their families they never knew.