Alaska Native linguists create digital Inupiaq dictionary
Edna Ahgeak Paniattaaq MacLean smiled when her granddaughter Sirroun carried a thick tome with two hands and put it carefully on the table before her.
“I had some young people or teenagers tell me, ‘We’re trying to learn Inupiaq but it’s so heavy!'” linguist and educator MacLean laughed, looking at the Inupiaq dictionary she wrote.
In June, MacLean and two Yup’ik web developers, Christopher Egalaaq Liu and Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, completed an online Inupiaq dictionary and word-building app, available at inupiaqonline.com.
