About the Inuit language(s): Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Inuvialiktun
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
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Following a tradition to explore northern languages in December (last year I made a video on Sami), today we're traveling to the Arctic Circle. We're going to explore Inuit - a language (or a language family or a dialect continuum) that is spoken in some of the most extreme corners of our planet - Greenland, Northern Canada, and Northern Alaska. Besides, it has had quite a different destiny in these three countries.
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Videos used:
I speak Greenlandic in this episode! - [English Subtitles]
• Video
Barbara Inuktitut English Subs
• Barbara Inuktitut ...
IÑUPIAQ VERSION: HARD BOTTOM MUKLUK WORKSHOP
• IÑUPIAQ VERSION: HARD ...
#inuktitut #greenlandic #inupiaq
Good on Denmark for allowing the Greenlanders to keep speaking their language to the point where nearly everyone still speaks it. You seldom see that nowadays
Denmark generaally has had several far away territories such as previously Iceland and still Faroer. One reason for getting Greenland was to look if there are any remains, whether living or ruins, from the old Viking settlements. It was too cold for many Danes to want to settle there. The Greenlanders had the only way to survive in that land, which was not very appealing to most Danes.
@@napoleonfeanor so I've heard. I've always wanted to visit the Faroes, it looks like the heavens here on earth
@@camrendavis6650 You absolutely should go there. :-)
Take Norrøna from Iceland or Denmark.
It's a ferry so you can bring a car with you.
@@Luredreier thank you!
All colonists should aspire to be like this 👏👏👏👏
Can we take a moment to appreciate the effort she puts among us
Absolutely.
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She is a robot, not human.
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I've always been fascinated by that region. As a kid I would spend hours looking at maps and looking for the most distant lands. I still do, actually, after three decades.
This was a great video :)
I agree. Kinda mysterious out there.
me too - i'm planning a trip there one day; you should come. Wouldn't that be crazy? Ha!
Me too, when I as a child and actually I still lovin this Region and culture
Good to know I wasn't the only one
@@bobbygold3889 you should do it! where are you from?
If anyone wants to hear this language spoken for 3 hours, watch "The Fast Runner". It's the first movie filmed entirely in the Inuit language. I believe it was filmed in Canada. Good movie. I saw it about 20 years ago in the theaters when it was released.
Thank you. I'll look that one up. As a return favour, the fourth series of Borgen (Danish series) has a storyline which involves Greenland (and environmental issues). There's a decent amount of Greenlandic in a number of the episodes.
Yes, this is very interesting film. I have see it a number of times.
The less-known, mysterious languages from remote places with few speakers are my favorite by far. More like this please!
Mine too, I hope to see a series on Nilotic languages some time
Mysterious to you lol
dude, it's not some arcane language
I have a lifelong friend who is an Eskimo born, raised, and still living in Barrow, Alaska. She taught me how to sing "You Are My Sunshine" in Eskimo. If the term Eskimo isn't correct, I apologize. However, she is the one who said she was an Eskimo and that her language was Eskimo. Language in general fascinates me, but the languages of indigenous peoples
the term eskimo is deemed derogatory for those that call themselves inuit, i have heard alaskan natives prefer eskimo over inuit as they do not see themselves as inuit :)
@@Spaceosaurus68im sure it depends on the person, but Inuit translates to people
👋 Aingai! qanuippit? ii. 🙏 Nakurmiik. thank you for all your work helping us to understand each other. aqaluq❤ inuktitut is a language close to my heart. konig 😘
she just wants money from views and clout. she never cares about native people just the languages for clicks
These languages are so beautiful, I don't want them to go extinct. :( We need to establish language centers to keep the mother tongue of Indigenous people alive and allow them to thrive.
I met a native Alaskan National Guardsman who'd been to Thule Air Base, (Qaanaaq Mitarfik, in Inuit.) He was able to speak with the locals with no difficulty.
fluent speakers of my tribe's language (Chikashaanompa) is down to about 450 and they're all over 55 years old. although, i am quite thankful that the tribe has recently begun a language revitalization project.
you may be interested in looking into more information about the Chickasaw/Chikasha language.
I spent time with an Inuit family in the Canadian arctic when i was a young teen, Very nice to see you cover a very friendly gracious people.
If you take a flight from Ottawa to Iqaluit then pre-flight instructions are given are Inuktitut . I recorded this on my flight there. Inuktitut is an official language of Nunavut. "The Inuit Language Protection Act states that the government must take positive action to promote the use of Inuktitut in all sectors of Nunavut society" All museum exhibits are trilingual (Inuktitut, English, French). By the way, a peculiarity of Inuit culture - there are six seasons not our typical four.
Just yesterday I was thinking, I miss Julie's videos lol and this one is precisely about one of my favorite languages 😁
Btw most linguists do not consider Yukaghir to be a part of Uralic.
There was also a small typo where you switched with as the Inuit vowels.
There seems to be a weird ambiguity whether Yukaghir is even Uralic or not... It's weird
@@mysteriousDSF To be honest, there is always some controversy between linguists if the topic is not about the Indo-European family for some weird reasons.
Not to mention that currently known "proto-uralic" is more like "proto-finnic" at this point because of how heavily finnish-centric the reconstruction is.
In my personal opinion the idea of making altaic, uralic and inuit families to be a thing would be the best, since the languages that these terms contains are possibly had lots of interactions in mixing before it got into their current locations, so it won't be unreasonable to make them related just like how hindi or persan are related to english somehow.
I had hoped to learn a bit more about polysynthesis. It's not just the constructed example. You saw it in the subtitles. It's everyday speech there to say "paajatorusuneruvunga" = "I'd rather have another beer."
This was very informative in terms of the history and the linguistics. I hope the Inuk people continue to thrive
Just fyi, 'Inuit' is plural and 'Inuk' is singular, and 'Inuit' already means 'people,' so you don't have to say 'inuit people' because it's like saying 'people people'
inuit languages are one of my favorites to listen to. they have a calming effect on me.
Been hoping for this language group
I heard a lot of the lateral fricative sound in the Greenlandic fellow's speech. Wikipedia says this sound is absent in other dialects.
Tom Scott did a video on the syllabic writing system. A near-textbook example of a writing system (an abugida, in this case) tailored to how the language works.
My wife's family had their genetic genealogy done and they are between 98.4 - 98.8 Finnish and the other percent is Eskimo/Inuit. Finnish language also has similarities like Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas - which means "An airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student".
Finns do indeed have some Siberian/North Asian ancestry.
Not really a "similarity", they are just agglutinative languages. You can even do that in certain non-agglutinative languages that form compound nouns by sticking elements together, as German and many other languages.
That just seems to be a compund noun. That's different from polysynthesis.
Isn’t the word you put before Inuit a slur? I’d stray away from using it!
@@polishhussarmapping258 Every Uralic language has, since currently it believed that Uralic languages originated from the "khanty-mansi autonomous okrug".
Yes!! I’ve been waiting for another one. Good day to you!!
i love your videos and this is one of my favorites so far
I think it's also very important to note that Inuit people and Inuit languages are also related to other indigenous Arctic people of North America. Inuit langauges are very close to Yupik and Aleut languages, together with whom they create the Eskimo-Aleut group. Those communities are also very interesting by itself, especially since the Yupik still exist not only in North America, but also in the far Eastern portion of Siberia.
*Inuit. Not inuit people. Basically you wrote people people. Because the word inuit means people.
Happy to have you and your appreciated videos back ;)
Wish you a happy New Year
a surprise arrival - a new video from julie. such a pleasant end of year gift!
Julie, I very much love all of your videos. Thanks for your great efforts. You're simply an amazing humam being!
Finally watched you vid, been seeing it on my recommended page. Great video, greeting from Kalaallit Nunaat 👋
This was a great Christmas present to your viewers! Hope you're having a great holiday and a wonderful New Year!
Long time no see. Happy to see you again :)
Hey Julie. Nice to see you're back to the tube.
You need to make a video on the cherokee language
Incredibly fitting since I just moved to Canada. Thanks for the video!
I love your ability to both speak and comprehend so many different languages and to have a face that looks like it is being dubbed when you speak! 😜
Hola Julie, espero que tengas felices fiestas!
Muchas gracias por tu dedicación a este video
7:20 this is a very similar concept to Hungarian megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért which also has one prefix and some 15-ish suffixes (meaning something like "because you (all) acted like you could not be subjected to defamation").
As I recall, Finnish and Hungarian are unique in Europe because they are only related to each other (Finno-Ugric Languages) and not to any other (except maybe Estonian). It makes sense that they have similar structures.
Really amazing source of language change, to taboo words on spiritual grounds, related to the naming of people -- I love it
Yay! Your back !
Thank you so much. You have amazing skills...i have spent some months living with The Cree, Ojbwa and other small groups in Saskatchewan. I have found the native hunters relate to their Forest, snow locations with a special understanding. Take care.
Thank you for this video.
Excellent video. Happy New Year from Canada.
Thanks for this interesting video.
Extremely interesting, as usual. What I would add at the end of the video, is a short bibliography concerning the trated language
what an incredible smile you have Julie :D
Really really interesting and well done..!!!
Hi JuLingo, Great and informative as alaways. And I would like to see a video of a Sino Tibetan language❤❤❤
thank you, that was really interesting.
very useful channel
I´m amazed at how much you know about all languages. Congratulations.
Great info & education for me, ty
1st new video I see after subscribing
Hope to immigrate to those regions someday. My family was Ojibwe. Before we were relocated.
Really excellent videos. I hope you might make a video on Carthaginian and Amizigh languages.
You should a video about Arpitan language spoken in parts France, Italy, and Switzerland 😁
The elderly woman speaking Inupiaq uses some English words when she speaks.
I found this examination of the Inuit languages compelling. I had an indigenous uncle from the far north (Northwest Territories region, on the lower Mackenzie River ) of the Arctic here in Canada. Our current governor-general in Canada, a woman named Mary Simon, is Inuit (from the Nunavut region), a former broadcaster/diplomat/public servant dedicated to the advancement of her people.... she delivers virtually all her addresses in French, English, and her native Inuktitut. I'll have to explore this Inuit language topic more fully, you've really piqued my interest. Thank you, Julie, and Happy New Year to you!
Mary Simon (ᒥᐊᓕ ᓴᐃᒪᓐ) is from Kangiqsualujjuaq, Québec. Also, Nunavut is a territory, not a region.
Great! Thank you.
Qallunaat 🤩thank you for your research
Just as an aside with regards to Alaska, the United States does not have any official language. Obviously, the most widely spoken is English. However, there is no official language for the United States, which may be why Inuit language doesn’t have any official status in Alaska, because there is no official status for any language.
As far as I know, USA doesn't have any official language only at the federal level. Some states have chosen to have an official language or languages though. Alaska is one of them. They made English an official language in 1998, and 20 Native languages official in 2014. Truth be told this latter move was largely symbolic. English is required for government documents while Native languages aren't.
If that's the case, there's no reason that the US should require me to speak English if I want to become a citizen. Especially since English is technically a foreign language to the United States.
You would think that this will mean that minority langauges will be always protected in the US but you'd be very, very wrong 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's the biggest joke ever, same as the USSR who officially didn't have an official language 🤦♀️ this didn't stop the US from forcibly assimilating Louisiana Creoles, German speakers, Hawaiians and basically every single Native American group 😡
@@gamermapper true enough!
@@gamermapperOf course there is a reason you need to speak English. You won't be able to take the naturalization and citizenship test without English. Your point that English is a foreign language is silly.
Excellent.
And you represent the word beauty in every language
Very educational you’re probably very highly educated wonderful presentation beautiful !!
amazing!!!!
Juli, I enjoy your podcasts. I like it when you show your hands talking. You voice, hands and eyes feel deeply beautiful and Angelic. What is your native language?
Hello from Siberia, Republic of Sakha(Yakutia). I think it's more close language for me especially to Evenks, Evens,
Yukaghirs from Yakutia. Sakha(Yakut) is a turks group, but some words are almost the same with Inuit, for exemple: khuyakh, khayakh. Inuittarga Sakha Siritten Ulakhan Egherde buoluokhtun!
Yes. Thanks.
"Outstanding eyebrows" this is lovely :p
Lovely that your cat participate
This is a great Chair you are sitting in. I guess it's very, very comfortable.
You have my dream job that I never had!
Love Inuit peoples from Turkiye❤
I'm really intoit, you know learning the inuit.
In Greenlandic we have e and o which has a distinct sound from i and u. but it only comes when it's accompanied with r,q or rl sound after
I notice a nice and gradual improvement in content quality since first introduced to the channel years back. But as always, great information. Please keep teaching and educating the world!
Welcome back!
Oh, btw: What do you think, whether you know these 2 or not, about *Omniglot* (website) and Ilovelanguages (YT channel) as resources?
To my untrained stupid ear, the Greenlandic guy sounded like he was speaking with a Nordic/Skandanavian accent. The rest seemed to sound more N. American Native Peoples/Aboriginal.
That, however, might just be me and my untrained, stupid ear. :)
Good point! That's how they sounded to me as well.
Yeah I heard that too and think it might be some phonetic interference from Danish as that is a language that Greenlanders study in school and is likely more useful for business than Greenlandic. Just a guess though.
I think so to. It seems likely. After all, German speaker speaking English speaks with a German accent and rhythm. It makes sense the Greenlanders would have picked up a bit of a Scandinavian accent, or vice versa.
It's interesting that Alaskan Inupiat isn't more vigorous. Yupik is. It is definitely not endangered. Even young whites who grow up in Yupik areas such as Bethel, Alaska speak Yupik fluently.
It's crazy overall there's way more Inuit than Yupik people but somehow in Alaska it's Yupik that's thriving
@@gamermapperI read an interesting book that was published about 1960. It said that Eskimo languages in Alaska were surviving better than Athapaskan languages. The Athapaskan languages were dying because Athapaskan culture was competitive. They took pride in their children leaving the village and going to college, for example. Eskimo culture was communitarian, and few people got much education. But I wonder if the coming of oil money to the Inupiat areas may have threatened that cohesion.
Kalaallit is from the Neu Herrnhut (DK-Norden Herrnhutterne/GL-Noorliit), which is from Herrnhut in Germany. They called Greenlandic Inuit people Karaler/Kareler (Karels/Karalerne) and Karelen/Karalen for an Inuk person. Herrnhuten Samuel Kleinschmidt wrote a book entitled "Kalaallisut allattarissorneq" in 1851. He called the Greenlandic Inuit language Kalaallisut. Because the German Herrnhuters called Greenlandic Inuit Karaler (Germanic in Danish for Greenlandic Inuit) - Kalaallit. My grandparents and great-grandparents never called themselves Kalaallit but Inuit. And it was in the 1960s that some young Greenlandic Inuit began to call themselves Kalaallit.
Just wanted to correct a detail. But what a good and informative documentary. Thank you!!
Inuit people 😂😂😂
Thanks!! For resson yournever probably never kwonw
The "so many words for snow" thing is a bit of a misnomer due to the polysynthetic nature of the language. For example, notice how many words in that list contain "qani" or a variation on it? Is the same root word with a different prefix/suffix/whatever really a different word?
This is interesting
:)
Julie 💜
❤🦾 I would like to thank you for the lesson. While I admired what you taught you brought your beautiful self to my screen and I have never seen a female look as gorgeous as you. The diagrams laid out are perfect for my thoughts that are leading me in new directions. When I die I wish to have a lady such as yourself at my side.❤
Yesssss finally someone speaks about this languGe
Well done on a complex topic 👏 👏👏👏
Love the gesticulating.. Hands like white doves 🕊 🙌 🕊🕊🕊 (sorry, just an errrrmm... observation) 🫠😶🌫️
I heard that Basque people being a sea fearing people picked up some Inuit words.
I remember making a Inuit inspired conlang a few years ago it didn’t last long so I scrapped it in favour of other projects (plus I wasn’t satisfied with it)
I made one with roots from Yuto-nahua but the phonology and grammar of Inuit languages, I don't remember the name of the language tbh but it meant something like "we all constantly speak and speak" :)
@@cuckoo61interesting
Am I the only one who always hopes you'll be performing the video in the same outfit as the thumbnail? Even though I love your videos already, that would make it a thousand times cooler. :) Anyways, thanks for your work, it is really good to have this channel.
yeah the thumbnails are insane haha
That'd make her the Emily Ratajkowski of linguists. If she isn't already.
You should do one on circassian language.
So according to her narration of paleohistory, the first Americans who populated most of North and South America came over the Bering Strait thousands of years before the Inuits followed, just 2-4000 YBP, populating the northernmost regions. I never knew this.
Can you do a video on Mayan?
Nos naichi cus nalomajna'us as be'nra che lacam'ba.
Greetings from Bolivia brothers.
In Nunatsiavumiutitut (idk) we call Europeans Kalunâk (or pronounced haloonaak) and I heard it’s cause they kept on saying hello to the inuks lmao
in turkish kayak means skiboard and to ski is kay-mak and inuit kayak means kano which is considered smaller boat in turkish called kayık.. additionaly turkish have [ş] and [s] consonants which is totaly same but difference is spelling. unuit spelling as sra and sa as turkish şe and se
Western languages are pretty cool. You should definitely do one for the Algonkin/Iroquoian, or maybe another polynesian language.
😭 Ughh as a Canadian, I think we really need to do better tbh. It sounds amazing
Having "Usually flies" as a word for an aeroplane must be slightly worrying for some Inuits
What about a mapudungun language video??
Me too like my friend said ❤❤❤❤❤ mi ti amo 😍💕💕💕 or where are you from 🤔🤔
Katara and Sokka from the Southern Water Tribe🌊🪨🔥🌪
Kalaallit - almost means in Estonian (Kala Liit): Fish Nation. Coincidence?