Optometrists in Montreal have created a visual eye chart for Inuit patients. Inuktitut speakers who travel to the McGill University Health Centre for an eye exam have the option of reading a chart in Inuktitut syllabics rather than letters in English. | APTN National News

The Inuit: the aboriginal people of the North American arctic, sometimes referred to as Eskimo. Over a thousand years ago, they spread into Arctic Canada looking for a better life. A syllabic writing system was introduced in the 1800s by Anglican missionaries.Before this the Inuits had no writing system. But the only Bible was printed in the Latin alphabet—not the syllable characters used by the Inuit. Bible translation is time consuming! Especially in a language and culture vastly different fro

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