The language on the surface would appear to be quite strong. But I just got a book on how languages die. It starts like a cancer and spreads. And it normally starts in the capital cities. There are signs here in Nunavut that we don't need to be complacent about the language.
Some kids speak it and many adults speak it, and that's a base.
But it's the home. If the parents don't insist that Inuktitut be the language of the home, then the prospects of the language continuing are very dim. This is the sort of talk that frightens many people here. Inuit watched their language almost disappear once before. In the 1950s and 1960s, when young Inuit were forced into Residential Schools, they had to speak English.