Well, I just can't see how you ever find the time to travel with all the complaints you get. One of the things that aboriginal languages have is syllabics. I can remember as a young person, my grandmother reading me stories in syllabics. Tom Sawyer was one of them. Now, in most of the western Arctic at least, terminology is done by roman orthography. I would like to ask how important are syllabics to you and whether you're doing anything to revitalize it or preserve it? I see you as one individual who is supposed to be the protector and to make sure that the aboriginal languages never, ever die. But I see syllabics in the western Arctic as being extinct. How are you dealing with this?
Samuel Gargan on Tabled Document 11-12(5): First Annual Report Of The Languages Commissioner Of The NWT For The Year 1992-93
In the Legislative Assembly on March 16th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Tabled Document 11-12(5): First Annual Report Of The Languages Commissioner Of The NWT For The Year 1992-93
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 15th, 1994
Page 640
Samuel Gargan Deh Cho
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