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For Nilaulaaq Miriam Aglukkaq, the creation of new Nattilingmiut syllabics meant she could write her language properly for the first time. Now, those syllabics are part of a universal font that can be read anywhere in the world. Aglukkaq has spent years working to revitalize Nattilingmiutut, which she grew up speaking in Taloyoak. Elisabeth Jansen-Hadlari and Attima Hadlari have been working with Aglukkaq to standardize Nattilingmiutut since 2007, along with language expert Janet Tamalik McGrath. But though the road to a complete written dialect has taken years, it took a considerably shorter time to get the letters formally recognized in Unicode a digital text standard that allows text to show up properly on computers, phones and other devices. All that's left is for companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google to update their fonts and keyboards.
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