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.
All the worldâs languages put together comprise about 800 or so sounds. Each language uses only about 40 language sounds, or âphonemes,â which distinguish one language from another. At birth, the baby brain has an unusual gift: it can tell the difference between all 800 sounds. This means that at this stage infants can learn any language that theyâre exposed to. Gradually babies figure out which sounds they are hearing the most.