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Ve (tions. One is that it would com-| THE OSHAWA TIMES Wednesday, November 5, 1958 / plicate things for Eskimos al-| ans (0) | 1 H | 101 1 Ol : ue ready taught by the existing lo- cal systems ' ° ll Studies made by the mission- aries were a source for the spell- . 1 nn S 1IM0 ing system now under considera- or ana tion by the government, Dr. Le- , |febvre says. By GERALD FREMAEN |the sound structure of all dialects tems worked out by local mis- LANGUAGE RECORDINGS Cafadian Press Staff Writer [to our spelling system," Dr. Le- sionaries. Others are taught a They also sent in tape record- @ f MONTREAL (CP) -- A young|febvre says. "We are not syllabic system using circles, tri- ings of the spoken language and lingyistics professor at the Uni- scrambling all the dialects and|angles and haoks for symbols. = Iyritten phonetic reports in re- versity of Montreal has the task forcing them into a straight. Local systems could complicate sponse 10 a questionnaire Dr. things, says Dr. Lefebvre. Lefebvre mailed yacross the of "dismantling the Eskimos' jacket. That wouldn't help the r 2 "If we lon't rush not only to porn Tower of Babel. Eskimos." . | ; Canada's 10,000 Eskimos speak He suggests as a parallel in unify spelling but to find a stand-| However the system is based 25 different dialects, and Dr. Gil-|English the differences in speech/ard grammar -- the missionaries on the description of an eastern les Lefebvre, gt the bidding of|among Cockneys, north country- are doing this--the dialects willl Hudson Bay dialect studied ear- the department of northern af- men and BBC announcers The break up ato languages. lier by one of the linguists who faire, is trying to help them de-|written language is the same for fie says co-operation of the collaborated in working out the velop a common tongue. all missionaries--who teach the Es new system. Hp was Raymond He believes Gagne, head of the English de- v He concentrates on spelling as (SPELLING SYSTEMS kimos--is essential ; 2 the 'basic step, leaving grammar| Some Eskimos at present are|they are ready to support it, but partment at Mountain Sanato- and. dictionary work to mission- taught to write using spelling sys- there are some justifiable objec-/rium in Hamilton. - aries and other experts in the -- field. WORKS AS LINGUIST "I'm working as a linguist, trained in linguistics and pho- netics, on unification of the spell ling system." says Dr. Lefebvre. JInvestigation is still going on, mt ir the meantime he has sub- mitted a spelling system which he believes could he suitable for afl 'Eskimo dialects. a basis on which a standard medium of ex- pression could be built ? : Df. Lefebvre. 30. who pursued | 7 = = 1 Hnguistics in London and Paris, | i =r pr 3 stopped straight from the miss- TAILORED ; : cf ; ing list into his assignment 2 4 - ww DB we had/ spent the summer of ¥ 7% 4 C 7 orl 7 1955-0n the Belcher Islands in UNDERWEAR -- Hudson Bay studving the dialect] of the Eskimos there. His part of the Esiimes there, Wis part! peyly THE WHOLE islands and grave fears were eld for a time for Dr. Lefehvre h On his return to Ottawa he wa FAMILY asked to investigate a standard of spelling in the Eskimo dialects Whatever their age, whatever and language that would conform : ) and Jang iia ih gt world con op their needs, Mother knows she'll get latinized standard used in Green-| longer wear--and actually save Gn # Th . 1nd money--when she looks for the # & This Excellent NOW ONE LANGUAGE WATSON'S labeb 2 Greenland spelling was stand-| ns drdized in 1872, Dr. Lefebvre ex-| FOR HERSELF Ff] plains, and since then Greenjand Dainty panties and briefs in f 5 } dialeets have evolved into one fine quality viscose, cottons or mix= 4 4 17 3 language. Greenland E s kimos, | Mores: In Mahogany finished in Mocha, has the appearance of a triple who prefer to be called Green- landers, now have a radio sta-| FOR. 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