A Rich Linguistic Tapestry

At least nine Indigenous languages from three distinct language families make the Northwest Territories their home.

Language as the Soul of Culture

Knowledge keepers have long recognized that a healthy living language is the key to a thriving people.

From the Spoken to the Written Word

Indigenous languages have adopted many orthographies to express their spirit in our hypertextual world.

Traditional Knowledge and Technology

New assistive technologies hold out the promise of greatly elevating revitalization efforts.

Welcome to the Repository

The NWT Indigenous Languages Reference Repository is a single window web portal for language tools and services developed, compiled, and vetted for all the Indigenous languages of the Northwest Territories.

In the Northwest Territories, governments, schools, and community organizations have long produced, developed, and funded an enormous variety of linguistic resources and orthographic tools, but they have increasingly become scattered, offline, or otherwise inaccessible. This portal hopes to provide that missing link that will propagate terminology and orthographic standards and facilitate the uptake of general Indigenous language awareness amongst Northern residents and interested parties across the country and the world.

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What This Website Offers

Updates

Experimental resources and tools to promote and enhance language revitalization efforts

Words

Dictionaries, terminology lists, manuals, and audio samples

Letters

Alphabets, Unicode tables, diacritical tips and tricks, and vetted fonts

Tools

Keyboard tools and layouts, text substitution scripts, and font conversion tools

Reference

History of writing systems, standardization, language classification codes, and NWT designated areas

Data

Vital statistics, maps, Indigenous Languages Month designs, and research links

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