Nunavik Drummers

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Biographies of drummers from Nunavik

Nunavik Carvers

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Biographies of carvers from Nunavik

Basic Sounds of Inuktitut

All Inuktitut Grammar
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Rule 1: Presentation of the Inuktitut vowels and consonants

Sequences of Vowels

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Rule 2: No more than two vowels can appear in a row.

Sequences of Consonants

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Rule 3: No more than two consonants can appear in a row.

First and Last Sound of a Word

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Rule 4: With few exceptions, a word may only begin with one of the following sounds: i u a p t k m n s q.

Consonant Groups Within a Word

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Rule 5: No group of two consonants can follow another group of two consonants in the same word.

Standard Orthography

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Rule 6: Introduction to alphabetic (qaliujaarpait) and syllabic (qaniujaarpait) orthography.

Teaching Literacy

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Rule 7: We recommend that a synthetic method be used from the start.

Words

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Rule 8: A word, any word, combines a number of basic sounds in order to express a more or less complex meaning.
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