Source: livingdictionary.com domain check — Asuilaak platform apparently defunct
- Author: n/a (direct site check); the platform reference traces to Nicole Rosen & Alana Johns, "Notes sur l'inuktitut parlé à Iqaluit (Nunavut)," Études/Inuit/Studies 26(1), 2002 (erudit.org), which states the Asuilaak dictionary "is available on the Internet at www.livingdictionary.com"
- Publication: direct web check of
livingdictionary.com, plus a blocked secondary source (fiftywordsforsnow.com/hovercraft/asuilaak/, a blog post titled "It's About Bloody Time: Thoughts on the Living Dictionary") - Date accessed: 2026-09-07
- URL: https://livingdictionary.com ; https://fiftywordsforsnow.com/hovercraft/asuilaak/ (both attempted)
- Type: primary (direct site check). Neutral.
Extract
- A 2002 peer-reviewed academic source gives a specific, non-guessed platform URL for the Asuilaak Living Dictionary:
www.livingdictionary.com— a genuinely new pointer, distinct from the guessedasuilaak.livingdictionary.comsubdomain that failed (DNS error) in session 56. - Fetched directly this session:
livingdictionary.comnow resolves to an unrelated general-education blog ("the blog on modern education," covering reading strategies, study techniques, and similar topics) with no visible reference to Inuktitut, Nunavut, Indigenous languages, or any dictionary project. The domain has evidently been repurposed/resold since the 2002 source was written — it is not merely a wrong guess but a genuinely dead pointer. - A second lead, a 2020s-dated skeptic-style blog post specifically about using the Asuilaak dictionary (
fiftywordsforsnow.com/hovercraft/asuilaak/), was attempted by directWebFetchand via ther.jina.aiproxy; both returned only the target site's own 403 Forbidden error page ("Nothing to see here. Move along, move along."), with no article content retrievable by either method. - Combined with session 56's already-failed attempts (the Government of Nunavut's own terminology page, which describes but does not link the dictionary;
tusaalanga.ca's unrelated glossary; the guessedasuilaak.livingdictionary.comsubdomain), this is now five independent failed access attempts across two sessions, including one genuinely new, non-guessed platform pointer from an academic source. Per this project's standing rule against over-guessing URLs, this lead is downgraded from "try a new pointer" to a likely-defunct resource — worth retrying only if a future session finds a current (post-2020) citation of the dictionary that includes a live URL, not by further guessing.
Gaps
- Not confirmed whether the Asuilaak Living Dictionary has moved to a new domain, been discontinued entirely, or is accessible only through a non-public/government-internal system. No current (last five years) source citing a working URL was found this session.