Traditional Inuit beliefs are bound up in the spiritual web of humans interacting with animals interacting with the environment. Their belief system reflects a deep love and respect for their world and environment.
The knowledge and ability to recognize that words are made up of a combination of individual speech sounds. phonics A body of knowledge consisting of 26 letters used to symbolize 44 English speech sounds.
The term sound symbolism refers to the apparent association between particular sound sequences and particular meanings in speech. Also known as sound-meaningfulness and phonetic symbolism. Onomatopoeia, the direct imitation of sounds in nature, is generally regarded as just one type of sound symbolism.