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How Iqalummiut use Inuktitut

Despite Inuktitut’s symbolic status, day-to-day use is slipping in Iqaluit

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Louis-Jacques Dorais’s research on Inuktitut was based on about 50 interviews conducted in 2003 to 2005 in Iqaluit.

He talked to Inuit, Qallunaat, young adults, elders, and language experts in Iqaluit and the Kitikmeot.

Of those interviewed in Iqaluit, some of whom are orginally from smaller communities in the Baffin region, Dorais found that:

• Four in 10 speak only English in the workplace;
• Five in 10 speak Inuktitut and English, but mostly English, at home;
• Six in 10 speak English when expressing their emotions;
• Six in 10 said they use only, or mostly, Inuktitut when visiting administrative offices;
• Six in 10 say English is more useful as a learning medium;
• Seven in 10, with a greater number of women than men, can read and write Inuktitut syllabics;
• Eight in 10 want GN politicians to speak Inuktitut;
• Nine in 10 want the GN to communicate with them in Inuktitut;
• Nine in 10 think school should play a more positive role in helping young people acquire a better knowledge of Inuktitut, especially in high school.

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