inuktitut

The 'hoax' that Pullum wrote about was the specific claim that Inuktitut has a lot of words for snow.

Meanwhile, Microsoft managed to add Inuktitut to its products, despite only 30K speakers in the world.

In every case, everyone has agreed that use of the Inuktitut syllabary should be encouraged.

Are the Cree and Inuktitut really the major scripts in use across half of Canada's land area today, like the video implies?

Didn’t read the paper, but Inuktitut produces words in a compound manner, right?

There are other syllabic writing systems as well, like Inuktitut and Cree, but those were created by missionaries familiar with other writing systems.

Try getting together a native Cantonese speaker, Arabic speaker, and Inuktitut speaker and find a name all three of them can pronounce without noticeable issues.

In the end, Inuktitut was simpler to work with and has a lot more everyday speakers and text to work with, especially because the Canadian territory of Nunavut publishes its government documents and websites in Inuktitut too.

Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet is used in casual writing.

In addition to their unique number, some buildings also have a name, which is sometimes written only in the Latin alphabet, sometimes written only in the Inuktitut syllabary, sometimes either, and in at least one case both.

(I haven't found a building without a number yet, but I'm no longer going to assume there aren't any.) Street names were not introduced until 2003, and when they were, all street signs were labeled in both the Latin alphabet and the Inuktitut syllabary.

English-speaking skiers have more words for "snow" than Inuktitut-speakers.

The word "Inuktitut" becomes ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in syllabics.

As for the tech stacks and langs yeah they're fun, but I meant in how abstract Inuktitut looks, I guess the human language in the loop is the real meat of the problem and of the "working with".

In a few hundred years the Inuktitut speaking high schoolers of the civilisation that comes after us will learn that this strange word “deep learning” is a left over from the lingua franca of yore.

Are you perhaps thinking of one of the invented scripts for indigenous American languages, e.g., Cree syllabics or Inuktitut?

Ojibwe and Cree are both spoken in Manitoba, but it's too far south for Inuktitut.

While they may be a Greenlandic teacher, it's almost assured that they are teaching western Greenlandic, which is similar to Canadian Inuktitut.