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How centuries of isolation shaped Greenlanders’ unique genetics
An analysis of the genomes of nearly 6,000 Greenlandic people suggests that their Inuit ancestors rarely moved around after ...
Meta is boosting its speech and translation AI with a fresh program
Meta and UNESCO are joining forces to advance open-source AI by collecting speech and text data as part of a new program to ...
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Meta Launches ‘Language Technology Partner Program’ to Source AI Translation Data
Meta seeks language data from speakers of less common languages for its open-source AI translation project, highlighting ...
The 'racist' parenting test fuelling Denmark–Greenland tensions
With Donald Trump's vow to take charge of Greenland putting the status of the autonomous Danish territory in the spotlight, a ...
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Meta Partners With UNESCO on Indigenous Language Translation
The government of Nunavut, a territory in northern Canada that speaks a variety of endangered Native Inuit languages, has ...
Yeti, Inuit, and Blanche Gardin: Watch Clips for Berlin Fest Film ‘The Incredible Snow Woman’
French writer-director Sébastien Betbeder's movie, filmed in France and Greenland and screening in the Panorama sidebar, focuses on a fearless explorer who must end up "confronting her own existence." ...
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Former Catholic priest who assaulted 7 Inuit children sentenced to 6 years in prison
A former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to indecent assault against seven Inuit children more than 40 years ago has been sentenced to six years in prison. Community in Alaska distressed by how ...
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Lawmaker suggests Greenland join Russia
The Danish autonomous territory of Greenland should join the Russian Federation because its indigenous people and Russia's Inuit population speak related languages, Russian lawmaker Vitaly Milonov has ...
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Northern entrepreneurship program focuses on Indigenous languages
Pallulaaq Friesen's business is called Arctic Acting Inuit and is based in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. She is aiming to make language learning interactive with technology available now, using ...
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Inuit language exhibit launches at Milton Public Library
Titled ‘Speaking the Inuit Way’, it allows residents to learn about the diversity of the Inuit language. On display will be Inuit writing systems, dialect differences, and modern revitalization ...
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Obesity in Canada – Prevalence among aboriginal populations
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2006 30 The Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) 2006 is a national survey of Aboriginal peoples (First Nations peoples living off-reserve, Métis and Inuit) living in urban, rural ...
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Denmark rethinking controversial parenting test for Greenland’s Inuit community
Denmark has announced plans to rethink a parenting competency test that has earned heavy criticism for using Danish cultural norms to measure fitness in Greenland’s Inuit communities. Human rights ...