Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Languages in Canada"

This month, Inuktut became first Indigenous language in Canada to be added to platform Suzie Napayok, left, owns and operates Tusaajiit Translations, an Inuktitut translation service. Jeannie Nayoumealuk, right, owns Apatakaa Translations, based out of Nunavik. Both say Google Translate’s new service is helpful for simple translations but not complicated tasks. (Photos courtesy of Suzie...

Inuktut to be first Indigenous language spoken in Canada added to Google Translate CBC News: Google Translate is adding a new language to its platform that could serve thousands of people in Ottawa as well as Canada’s North: Inuktut.  It’s one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages across the country, and is the first...

Globe and Mail: During the 2021 federal leaders’ debates at the Canadian Museum of History, the team at Aboriginal Peoples Television Network began to wonder if the way they broadcast translations in six different Indigenous languages, including Plains Cree, Innu and Anishinaabemowin, made sense. APTN operated four channels, three of which were regional, which began to prompt...

APTN Languages’ fall schedule features 24/7 programming in 18 Indigenous languages. APTN News: Some people have a five-year plan but Anishinaabemowin language keeper and educator, Pat Ningewance, has a 50-year vision. “Five years just goes like that. Fifty years is a better way to look at our time here, maybe even a hundred years,” Ningewance, the...

Dr Onowa McIvor and Aiyana Twigg were presenters at the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium held in Victoria, B.C. June 5 to June 7. Windspeaker.com: The theme of the 30th annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) was “Kinship, Connections, & Leadership in Indigenous Language Revitalization.” The international conference was held June 5 to June 7 on...

Every one of us has a role to play. Indigenous people and settlerCanadians can contribute to a healing chapter in our shared story of Indigenous languages removal, recovery and revival Decades of hard work have been restoring and protecting the Indigenous languages that are such a vital part of Kanata’s history. Yet, the urgency of...

NationTalk: Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq is pleased to announce that the Indigenous Language Sovereignty: Article 13 Experience is now open to the public. Visitors can hear directly from the Language Keepers and Language Learners who named the spaces of Qaumajuq with a new self-guided tour in the Gallery, alongside a new virtual...

‘You don’t really think about it, you just absorb it’ Island Morning; Mi’kmaw language class to help in sharing culture Click on the following link to access the audio: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-mikmaw-language-drumming-classes-1.6809806 Ten-year-old Sophia Bourque already speaks more Mi’kmaw than most adults. That’s because few adults speak Mi’kmaw, and even fewer speak it fluently. “Kwe’ n’in teluisi amalgat...

NationTalk – Dezeen: Type foundry Typotheque has created a series of new typefaces and proposed changes to the way that digital characters are encoded to make it easier for Canadian Indigenous communities to write digitally in their own languages. The North American Syllabics project saw the Dutch studio work in close collaboration with groups that use Canadian Aboriginal syllabics...

Toronto Star: OTTAWA – The number of people who speak an Indigenous language has fallen overall in Canada, but the figure grew for the country’s youngest generation, new census data suggests. Statistics Canada released data from the 2021 census that shows about 243,000 people reported being able to speak an Indigenous language, which is a...

More than 70 Aboriginal languages were reported in the 2016 Census. These languages can be divided into 12 language families: Algonquian languages Inuit languages Athabaskan languages Siouan languages Salish languages Tsimshian languages Wakashan languages Iroquoian languages Michif Tlingit Kutenai andHaida Table 1 below identifies Aboriginal identity population who can speak an Aboriginal language, by language family, main...