Posted Feb 14, 2012, 3:17 PM
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Unapologetic Occidental
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
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Originally Posted by BIMBAM
There may be biological mixing, but 88% of the population have the Greenlandic Inuit dialect as mother tongue to Nunavut's 70%, and it has a much more prominent role in society and is the only official language now. I'd say the language is much less threatened. It's also the case that even though there's more biological mixing, a larger proportion than in Nunavut identify as people with an Inuit identity on the census. What's more, while Greenlandic is a different dialect from Inuktitut, they're only separated by a few hundred years and the difference is comparable to the difference between different Inuit languages/dialects within the borders of Canada. I don't think it would be too outrageous to claim that they are both Inuit cities despite regional differences, in the way we can call both Iceland and the Faroe Islands, while different, Nordic countries of a common civilization.
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Wouldn't a good number of the Canadian Inuit also have at least some European blood mixed in as well?
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