Thursday, March 04, 2010

Beyond gender

Here's your gender-neutral national anthem:

O Canada, nunagivaptigit
Inungnit naglingnersiorpotit
Omativut tettedlarput
Tautuĸoruptigit
Nunatsiavut! pivlutit
Pigâtsainarpogut

O Canada! Nunatsiaĸ
pigârpogut, inôjogut illa,
Pigârpogut pivlutit Canada
That's Labrador Inuktitut, in an older version of the Moravian Roman orthography.

Interestingly, this version was published almost a century ago, in 1913 — 36 years before Inuktitut-speaking Labrador Moravians were even part of Canada.

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