Podcast directed by Catherine Ego and Mathieu Lavigne with Richard Compton in Montréal
Interview in French.
The 2021 census counted approximately 70,000 Inuit in Canada. To better understand their linguistic reality, Confluents meets with Richard Compton, professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal and holder of the Canada Research Chair in the Transmission and Knowledge of the Inuit Language. Holder of a PhD in linguistics from the University of Toronto (2012), our guest is interested in the grammar of Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun. In collaboration with Emily Kudlak, he published a dictionary of Inuinnaqtun in 2018. At the microphone of Catherine Ego, Richard Compton clarifies certain little-known realities, presents us with different particularities of the Inuit language and describes some of its tools and challenges for the present and the future.
Nakurmiik [Thank you!]...
Design and production of Confluents: Catherine Ego and Mathieu Lavigne
Music: Arturo Parra
Photo of Richard Compton: John Kennedy