Urgency to Standardize Inuktitut language.

CBC News reported on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 | 11:38 AM CT on 'Inuit urged to standardize language'. Not only for political reasons but also for educational reasons there an urgency for this issue. As a curriculum producer I know at first hand is it very difficult to meet the needs of all educators with different dialects, and it is also very costly.

While I was Googling on this issue, I came across this site titled Spoken Language and on the site the description said: Since the mid-1970s, Inuit have made efforts to standardize Inuktitut so that the language becomes consistent throughout the circumpolar world. ... When I opened it, surprisingly it didn't say much about the issue.

So I scrolled down some more and came across a announcement made by Louis Tapardjuk the Minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth that was reported by Nunatsiaq News only a few months ago. (Hmmm... where was I when the news came out?) According to the date on the news report I was out camping north of Chesterfield Inlet. It reports the Department of CLEY will be setting up a special committee called Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit, Inuit Language Authority. This is a committee I most definately will have to watch.