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The CBC has never done this before: posted a complete article in an indigenous language on the main English site. An awesome read that brings home the point of

The CBC has never done this before: posted a complete article in an indigenous language on the main English site. An awesome read that brings home the point of the people trying to keep their native languages alive.

eadmund 5y ago
Does an article in a non-English language belong on a site for an English-speaking audience? Just seems weird, like having an article about football in a basketry journal. On a technical level, of course, it’s awesome that Unicode enables this kind of thing.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  Yes as it introduces a larger audience to the language.
- jmopp 5y ago
  In this case, I would argue there isn't a problem with it - as there is an English translation available and the article itself is about the author learning her heritage language.
vmception 5y ago
I like the representation pushes Canada achieves with some of their pre-colonial communities There is almost no analog in the US Its so different, from the bad things to the good things, but just right there up north Really fascinating and inspiring for me about how much is possible given that there are so many cultures here that have almost nothing to do with each other, just grouped together as “indigenous”
rurban 5y ago
technically only the language is indigenous, but the script you were reading here not. this is a syllabic script and was invented by an English missionary who wanted to teach the tribes the bible. so he (Evans) came up with these extremely simple phonetic symbols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems Other missionaries and bible translators came up with their own writing systems also. the very first attempt 200 years earlier also looked interesting. and Larry Wall also had his ideas on this problem. it is extremely simple, and reminds me on modern Hangul, but is probably more related to japanese. https://omniglot.com/writing/syllabaries.htm https://omniglot.com/writing/syllabaries.htm

eadmund 5y ago

Does an article in a non-English language belong on a site for an English-speaking audience? Just seems weird, like having an article about football in a basketry journal. On a technical level, of course, it’s awesome that Unicode enables this kind of thing.

JaimeThompson 5y ago
Yes as it introduces a larger audience to the language.
jmopp 5y ago
In this case, I would argue there isn't a problem with it - as there is an English translation available and the article itself is about the author learning her heritage language.

vmception 5y ago

I like the representation pushes Canada achieves with some of their pre-colonial communities There is almost no analog in the US Its so different, from the bad things to the good things, but just right there up north Really fascinating and inspiring for me about how much is possible given that there are so many cultures here that have almost nothing to do with each other, just grouped together as “indigenous”

rurban 5y ago

technically only the language is indigenous, but the script you were reading here not. this is a syllabic script and was invented by an English missionary who wanted to teach the tribes the bible. so he (Evans) came up with these extremely simple phonetic symbols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems Other missionaries and bible translators came up with their own writing systems also. the very first attempt 200 years earlier also looked interesting. and Larry Wall also had his ideas on this problem. it is extremely simple, and reminds me on modern Hangul, but is probably more related to japanese. https://omniglot.com/writing/syllabaries.htm https://omniglot.com/writing/syllabaries.htm