Declan Ash... You should and MUST learn it. About English language, it is everywhere. You can learn it in the outside world. Your Inuit culture is deep in your heart and no one will appreciate it but you and your fellow Inuit people.
It is such a shame that we don't have Inuktitut language as part of school education, We must add this beautiful language to English and French in Canada.
i am a language enthusiast and have nothing against the language.. but it would never be benefitable since nearly nobody speaks it and it would be unnecessary to teach it in school since there would be no teachers and the language would not be usable in the everyday life and plus it would replace time in school where you could learn other stuff that is more imoportant for the average resident.
@@OneandonlyRosvo lololol the typical "I aM aN aUtHoRiTy So YoU sHoUlD lIsTeN tO mE" Bruh if there are First Nations (Which there are) then Canadians schools should teach indigenous languages.
If all Canadians had notions of at least one indigenous language it would help reconciliation and better the conditions of indigenous people in Canada. Not everyone has to become fluent, but at least a few courses would open doors. It would be a sign of respect. Immigrants to Canada and especially Quebec have to prove their language fluency but within Canada we just roll up north, build mines and clean out their mineral resources, and then people bring back all sorts of horror stories about a culture they didn't know a thing about. No culture is perfect but because people know f― all about the Inuit, their language, culture, etc., any negative interaction can create views that are simplistic, ignorant or downright racist. And on the other hand, you have people who are equally ignorant who think they're in an arctic paradise living in igloos etc and don't want to hear about their vision for development. Also down south in cities like Montreal the conditions of Inuit people (haha "people people"!) is worsened by a lack of resources, ignorance about who they are and a lack of welcoming. And if everyone had to dip their feet in the languages, some would want to dive in, and you would get translators who could help build cultural bridges and we could understand each other more clearly. And of course it would help keep the languages alive! Seems important to me :)
Wow 0-0 Inuktitut is gorgeous. Sounds like a mashup of Japanese and Finnish, I think I'll invest some time to learn this language. It is gorgeous, and very important historically. I'm so glad that the inuit were able to preserve their language so well :)
Lucien LaChance Funny you say this when I did my gap year in Finland my dad slammed down the phone after my host dad answered and told my mum, "that's not FInland. I called Japan!" And the Japanese students were the first to learn Finnish out of all of us Rotary students from around the world, then next was simultaneously a Mexican boy (who had an identical twin brother) and me (American, who has also spent 11 years in Canada- well 6 years consolidated). If this language has any similarities to suomi I'll be one happy camper. :)
Cree an American thing? There are Cree dialects stretching from Alberta to Labrador. The only Cree in the US are in Montana. There are also Ojibwe in Michigan and Wisconsin though they go by a different name.
For those wondering about pronunciation: -According to wikipedia, Q is pronounced as /q/ which for English speakers, is like a k pronounced further back in the throat -J is like an English y -R is like a French or a German r which, the best way I can explain it, is sort of like an English r but without your tongue curled up -a-e-i-o-u are mostly pronounced the same way as they would be in Spanish, and should be elongated when doubled In my opinion, the q here (except when doubled) seems to be pronounced like a voiceless uvular fricative (Spanish j) but that might be a dialectal variation of the same sound
Sixteen seconds into the video, I'm lost for pronunciation. I look at the comments, hoping to find some like-minded Anglo tongues that just can't wrap themselves around these words. Instead, everyone else is a polyglot who can compare the ins and outs of Inuktitut's sounds to languages from across continents. MFW I have trouble learning Spanish...
Jacob Houseman It is difficult to learn the pronounciation of words in languages that dont share a common base language, grammar or sentence structure with our own. Don't be discouraged the hardest way to learn any launguage is on your own with no one to communicate with. The best way is to talk with someone or just go there you will learn out of necessity.
Don’t worry. I seem to have a knack for languages, and I too find the pronunciation of « ugarajaqqara » far from easy. Maybe it’s my age! Repetition is the key.
This letter wise is somewhat similar to Cherokee. I know very little of my Cherokee language but hearing any Native language being spoken fluently is more beautiful than the stars on a clear night.
I am a teacher of Mandarim. My mother`s native tongue was Cantonese. My native tongue is Portugueses. I speak Lakota. And I can assure you this are the most difficult phonetics I came across in my whole life!
I love how I can't decide whether I should learn Mandarin, I wonder if I should learn Portuguese, and I just came here from a video about an introduction to the Lakota language and now I see your comment lol
I'm 14 from United States. Hoping to move to Canada later in life. Already learning French but would like to learn a few phrases in Inuktitut as well :) Thank you.
I read somewhere that this language might share vocab with Turkic family of languages. How - "Qanuq" (Inuktitut), there is a similar word "Qanaqa" (Uzbek) or "Qandaq" (Uyghur). Very interesting.
Karluk ve Uygur Türklerinden kelime almış olabilirler. Moğol istilasında Asya'dan Alaska'ya kaçanların arasında Karluk Türklerinin olması olası . Alaska'da Karluk adında bir yerin olmasının nedeni de bu olabilir.
Finnish is phonetically very similar to Inuktitut. I used a Finnish text-to-speech program to read Inuktitut, and it pronounced most of the words accurately.
No, it's a syllabic system, not abguida. Abguida has only the consonants, and the vowels are either diacritical marks, or some other system. Syllabic systems, each glyph represents both a consonant and a vowel - this is used for quite a few native languages.
it's the part that says "qallunaatituu-[...]" That part contains qallunaat, meaning something close to stranger/foreigner/white person, depending on how you use it and around who. It doesn't specifically say English anywhere.
Messing up is part of the learning process -- particularly with language. 99.999% of the time, people will just be flattered that you're trying to learn their language, ESPECIALLY with a language like this where relatively few people speak it.
lol i hate when people say english is hard. it is not that hard compared to the finnic languages, this language, greenlandic or tibetan. people say japanese is hard, but really, it isnt, at least not speaking it.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing your beautiful language! I'm surprised, that the "r" sounds quite similar to the "r" in Standard German, Danish or French, which makes pronunciation for me perhaps a bit easier than for native English speakers. The grammar is very complex and foreign though. Greetings to Nunavut from Northern Germany :-)
I wonder where I could learn Inuktitut in Canada. I have been trying to find some resources (on and offline), but it seems to me that there are no resources available outside of Nunavut.
I wish I could go live with my people and learn our ways... My fathers side is Inuit and my mom's side is mixed white. I never got to be with my fathers side of the family, and I grew up in New Mexico USA... I would do anything to live in nature, and take in all of the knowledge and language of our people. I feel robbed in a way... Even though there is information online, which I am grateful for, it isn't the same as learning from person to person. Still, thank you for these videos 💚
Hi, I am a migrant from India and residing in Canada in the province of British Columbia on a study visa. I am really fascinated by the indigenous culture and language. I wanted to learn at least one indigenous language but could not find any guide or book so far for that. I do not want to take any classes or courses because I really do not have any time for that. Does anyone know where I can buy a guide or book to learn an indigenous language? Thanks :)
a pa ta ka ga ma na sa la ja (ya) va ra qa nga nnga ła - ā pā tā kā gā mā nā sā lā jā vā rā qā ngā nngā łā, follow the same with i, ii, u & ū and you have the alphabet.
To a westener (Dane), who has been in Greenland for a short period, this video tells the whole world, how important it is to keep also languages with a limited numbers of speakers alive. Southern Canada has not, as I have heard it, always been very kind to indigenous inuit people and has even tried to wipe out its culture and languages. A shameful past, but hopefully Nunavut and Nunavik will breathe more freely in the future, as will Greenland in relation to Danes. I will be a hard struggle to gain independence, but no has the right to act like a colonial power or overrule others rights to freedom.
what dialect do I learn if I want to speak in Northern Labrador, in Nunatsiavut? Is all Inuktitut the same? I was told depending on the area inuktitut changes dialects. They are so different that they might as well be thier own separate langauges because they cant be understood by inuit from other areas. Each group of inuit have thier own version
I know this language to be close to Koryak, Itelmen, Yupik, and Chukchi, languages in Kamchatka, Northeastern Siberia. It could also be considered a part of the mega-Macro-Altaic family.
All classifications are arbitrary, someone decides where the borders are made and then a bunch of peoples or languages are clumped together, some willingly some not.
The way the "q" sound is pronounced in Inuktitut sounds similar to some Mongolian words, I think there are some aspects of this language that are like Mongolian, but they are different of course, I just think that they could have the same origins way back maybe.
Three key phrases to survive anywhere in the world: 1) Where is the bathroom? 2) How much does it cost? 3) Screw you (or something similar, must be "lighter" than the f- word) (The rest can be via hand gestures) I would love to know how to say these phrases in Inuktitut.
Ainngai qanuippit? silasi qannuippa? Bob ajunga Australia ngaaqpunga Very impressed with the Education system that promotes the use and development of the Inuktitut language. I believe that maintaining the use of their forbearer's language affirms and strengthens the identity of the student as an Inuit. Qujannamiik for showing me the insight into your wonderful culture and environment Uqausiq atausig naammajuittuq! Hope to visit your country one day, ulluqattiarin Bob
So I’m Greenlandic and just now learned about Inuktitut which is harshly similar to Greenlandic in some way, and this is cool. I like how it almost sounds like the northern Greenlandic dialect in some of the pronounciations.
Would you say these languages are mutually intelligible aka could you understand an Inuktitut speaker and could they understand you? P.s. doing some research on the matter and some insight from a native speaker would be amazing
Hey! I'm studying the John Franklin expedition, And Id like to know what dialect or kind of Inuit language was spoken around where the ships sank. For some more info, both ships sank around king Williams island, and south of prince of wales island (Canadian, not Alaskan). thank you!
@pinz2022 Oh you meant a public school system, that changes everything. Basically, any language/s you speak at home, you are able to achieve fluency in.
Incredible dialect. Lots of repetitions I hear in these phases. It is truly beautiful, & reminds me what we shall lose if we let capitalism consume the world in the coming 15 years. Hoping for a day we can visit, share, & learn about each other for free - in what I hear is called a resource based economy. Love from the UK
The prosody is so similar to Japanese and Korean! Even though Altaic and Eurasiatic are poor and unsupported hypotheses, there has to be some kind of contact or influence between their ancestors-either that or the cold/latitude just lends itself to that type of intonation.
@@anastasiasgaming1380 In phonology, it does! That uvular R is in there. Listen for the tone similarity in the Korean greeting and phrases like 'thank you'
inuktitut is only one of the very many indigenous languages in canada, including the dené languages, ojibwe, cree languages, mi'qmak... it would be good to make inuktitut official but let's not stop there :)
close. you see, alaska is near canada, so yes they speak this language, french, and mainly english. While greenland is practically owned by the danish, the inuits have more danish vocabulary in their language
@Simtropolitan Yes, I know, once upon a time it was simply a matter of winter camps and summer camps, with variations of sod and stone houses in winter and tents in summer. Before missionaries and government imposed their will there was no such thing as fixed villages. A mixed blessing, as before there were artificially fixed towns, there was no wailing and breastbeating over "global warming" eroding away our "ancient, ancestral dwellings".
@Simtropolitan But seriously, I've read that in Alaskan bush villages, for instance, this sort of bilingual education has had the same consequences there that it has in East L.A.. Namely, you end up with kids who can't speak or write properly in either language. Provides plenty of jobs for teachers and bureaucrats though...
One of my friends, this one is Inuit / Mi kmaq mix, has passed away recently, 1 month ago today . she never learned any of her languages except how to spell her name.. I already know quite a few languages, Dutch, Japanese, bit of Lebanese arabic, some French (European French - like in Paris of Marseille, but not so much french Quebec of acadian).. Mandarin Chinese. (tiny bit of korean too) Holy lifton Lord, I can't promise I'll succeed with this one!! but as a white European-Canadian, I will attempt it, if I don't succeed, sorry notsorry , cuz I tried 🙃🙂
This question goes out to all inuit people: I really love the inuit culture and I'm totaly interested in different Tattoo cultures. About 2 - 3 years ago I found out about the sewing technique that was and is still used in inuit groups. I would really like to get a Tattoo in this way and I'm asking you if you would say that that's okay to do or not. I don't try to steal a culture or make fun of it. Just as I am learning different languages I want to get to know other countries and cultures and appreciate them. What do you say?
Eskimo comes from the Algonquin people - our tribe used the term "Wskimo" pronounced "Ou-ski-mo" which means "He who eats raw" Wski- "New, fresh, raw" -mo "to eat something living" , it was used because the Inuit called the Algonquin people "Lice" because they lived in the forest. Both are insult terms, but fun history. Yes, Inuit is part of "eskimo" languages, but they are not referred to as such. It's fine though, not everyone knows that, you did the best you could!
Eccentric Emolga There are a few different Inuit languages, Inuktitut is one of them. Greenlandic is another common one. It's a beautiful sounding language family. ☺
In Alaska we have several different types of eskimos Inuipiq and Inupit who are related to the Canadian Inuit and these people from Greenland and other eskimos who are not that closely related such as the Yupik.and they do not want to be called Inuit but prefer eskimo. see ua-cam.com/video/ZJRI8ciVE1w/v-deo.html
hi im 12 from nunavat i dont remember a lot of Inuktitut but this is helping mr regain my culture thanks :D
+Caileigh Gouthro He is
Declan Ash... You should and MUST learn it. About English language, it is everywhere. You can learn it in the outside world. Your Inuit culture is deep in your heart and no one will appreciate it but you and your fellow Inuit people.
Im from nunavut but i speak french and english... Though im 15 and speak little in inuktitut.
Any progress my guy?
@@xxxx2228 dafuk?
It is such a shame that we don't have Inuktitut language as part of school education, We must add this beautiful language to English and French in Canada.
i am a language enthusiast and have nothing against the language.. but it would never be benefitable since nearly nobody speaks it and it would be unnecessary to teach it in school since there would be no teachers and the language would not be usable in the everyday life and plus it would replace time in school where you could learn other stuff that is more imoportant for the average resident.
@@OneandonlyRosvo lololol the typical "I aM aN aUtHoRiTy So YoU sHoUlD lIsTeN tO mE" Bruh if there are First Nations (Which there are) then Canadians schools should teach indigenous languages.
Whoever decided to call that language "Inuktitut" has some serious hubris; why? Because the name means "human speech"!
@@OneandonlyRosvowe have a inuktituk teacher at our school
If all Canadians had notions of at least one indigenous language it would help reconciliation and better the conditions of indigenous people in Canada. Not everyone has to become fluent, but at least a few courses would open doors. It would be a sign of respect. Immigrants to Canada and especially Quebec have to prove their language fluency but within Canada we just roll up north, build mines and clean out their mineral resources, and then people bring back all sorts of horror stories about a culture they didn't know a thing about. No culture is perfect but because people know f― all about the Inuit, their language, culture, etc., any negative interaction can create views that are simplistic, ignorant or downright racist. And on the other hand, you have people who are equally ignorant who think they're in an arctic paradise living in igloos etc and don't want to hear about their vision for development. Also down south in cities like Montreal the conditions of Inuit people (haha "people people"!) is worsened by a lack of resources, ignorance about who they are and a lack of welcoming. And if everyone had to dip their feet in the languages, some would want to dive in, and you would get translators who could help build cultural bridges and we could understand each other more clearly. And of course it would help keep the languages alive! Seems important to me :)
Wow 0-0 Inuktitut is gorgeous. Sounds like a mashup of Japanese and Finnish, I think I'll invest some time to learn this language. It is gorgeous, and very important historically. I'm so glad that the inuit were able to preserve their language so well :)
Lucien LaChance Funny you say this when I did my gap year in Finland my dad slammed down the phone after my host dad answered and told my mum, "that's not FInland. I called Japan!" And the Japanese students were the first to learn Finnish out of all of us Rotary students from around the world, then next was simultaneously a Mexican boy (who had an identical twin brother) and me (American, who has also spent 11 years in Canada- well 6 years consolidated). If this language has any similarities to suomi I'll be one happy camper. :)
The grammar I now know is simmilar to finnish (with the affixes being to focous of meaning)
Lucien LaChance I think that it sounds like Japanese and French! because of the R
Sacya Sayaca
I don't really hear the french.. Hmm interesting
It does! :3
Can we make Inuktitut the official language of Canada
Why stop at one? Why not also Cree, Ojibwe, and Tlingit?
Cree is more of an American thing but ojibwe is coming back in Ontario
Cree an American thing? There are Cree dialects stretching from Alberta to Labrador. The only Cree in the US are in Montana. There are also Ojibwe in Michigan and Wisconsin though they go by a different name.
Did know that
125- 125 you gotta be born into it...plus pretty share there are classes too learn too....
For those wondering about pronunciation:
-According to wikipedia, Q is pronounced as /q/ which for English speakers, is like a k pronounced further back in the throat
-J is like an English y
-R is like a French or a German r which, the best way I can explain it, is sort of like an English r but without your tongue curled up
-a-e-i-o-u are mostly pronounced the same way as they would be in Spanish, and should be elongated when doubled
In my opinion, the q here (except when doubled) seems to be pronounced like a voiceless uvular fricative (Spanish j) but that might be a dialectal variation of the same sound
Thanks for this
@@saya1121 no problem !
Btw, there are multiple Rs in German
Thank you.
It seems thatthe double "jj" is pronounced /ɟʝ/ or something
Sixteen seconds into the video, I'm lost for pronunciation. I look at the comments, hoping to find some like-minded Anglo tongues that just can't wrap themselves around these words. Instead, everyone else is a polyglot who can compare the ins and outs of Inuktitut's sounds to languages from across continents.
MFW I have trouble learning Spanish...
Jacob Houseman
It is difficult to learn the pronounciation of words in languages that dont share a common base language, grammar or sentence structure with our own. Don't be discouraged the hardest way to learn any launguage is on your own with no one to communicate with. The best way is to talk with someone or just go there you will learn out of necessity.
we all start somewhere
@@liyshaquoin1772 not out of necessity because everybody knows English
I’ve been trying to figure out how to pronounce uqarajaqqara for the last 5 minutes lol
Don’t worry. I seem to have a knack for languages, and I too find the pronunciation of « ugarajaqqara » far from easy. Maybe it’s my age! Repetition is the key.
This letter wise is somewhat similar to Cherokee. I know very little of my Cherokee language but hearing any Native language being spoken fluently is more beautiful than the stars on a clear night.
I am a teacher of Mandarim. My mother`s native tongue was Cantonese. My native tongue is Portugueses. I speak Lakota. And I can assure you this are the most difficult phonetics I came across in my whole life!
I love how I can't decide whether I should learn Mandarin, I wonder if I should learn Portuguese, and I just came here from a video about an introduction to the Lakota language and now I see your comment lol
I'm 14 from United States. Hoping to move to Canada later in life. Already learning French but would like to learn a few phrases in Inuktitut as well :) Thank you.
I read somewhere that this language might share vocab with Turkic family of languages. How - "Qanuq" (Inuktitut), there is a similar word "Qanaqa" (Uzbek) or "Qandaq" (Uyghur). Very interesting.
Karluk ve Uygur Türklerinden kelime almış olabilirler. Moğol istilasında Asya'dan Alaska'ya kaçanların arasında Karluk Türklerinin olması olası . Alaska'da Karluk adında bir yerin olmasının nedeni de bu olabilir.
Khamza Davletov Interestingly, I'm studying Swahili now, and find connections between it and Japanese!
Tukisivinngaa? Tushundingmi (Tushundingma)? in Uzbek One more example.
Qayiq-Kayak -Boat in Uzbek.
If Inuktitut is agglunative language it is closer to group of Ural-Altaic languages.
Holy frig, this is AMAZING!!! ^_^ I thought Finnish was a challenge. This is going to be such an amazing linguistic adventure! ^_^ ♥
Finnish is phonetically very similar to Inuktitut. I used a Finnish text-to-speech program to read Inuktitut, and it pronounced most of the words accurately.
How did it go?? How did you learn it and did you succeed?
Awesome language! Alphabet looks so cool too!
Buildingblox17 it's actually an abugita
No, it's a syllabic system, not abguida. Abguida has only the consonants, and the vowels are either diacritical marks, or some other system. Syllabic systems, each glyph represents both a consonant and a vowel - this is used for quite a few native languages.
it's the part that says "qallunaatituu-[...]"
That part contains qallunaat, meaning something close to stranger/foreigner/white person, depending on how you use it and around who.
It doesn't specifically say English anywhere.
I'm frightened to speak the language or learn it, it's so beautiful I feel if I were to mess up on a word it would be an insult. This is so beautiful
Messing up is part of the learning process -- particularly with language.
99.999% of the time, people will just be flattered that you're trying to learn their language, ESPECIALLY with a language like this where relatively few people speak it.
You're dumb. Messing up while you're LEARNING is normal & okay. Must be a Liberal.
@@perfectfae3534 fuck yourself
Let no man therefore say that English is hard.
lol i hate when people say english is hard. it is not that hard compared to the finnic languages, this language, greenlandic or tibetan. people say japanese is hard, but really, it isnt, at least not speaking it.
English is only hard if you're dyslexic.
Inuktitut isn't hard, you just have to learn the structure of the words
English is hard if you didn’t grow up speaking it dumbass
This language is highly regular, unlike most European languages, so no English is still hard
lol I can already feel my Arabic helping me pull off these pronunciations. how do we not have any indigenous languages as an official language tbh smh
Very interesting, thank you for sharing your beautiful language! I'm surprised, that the "r" sounds quite similar to the "r" in Standard German, Danish or French, which makes pronunciation for me perhaps a bit easier than for native English speakers. The grammar is very complex and foreign though. Greetings to Nunavut from Northern Germany :-)
NorthSea 1981
their R is like a gh like
uqaghajaqāgha.
Inuktitut has been in my family for generations yet as far as my grandma doesn’t know it . I would like to learn it before any other language 🤍
Hi im from Indonesia, and i love your culture language, i hope canada can preserve tradisional language, like Indonesian
I wonder where I could learn Inuktitut in Canada. I have been trying to find some resources (on and offline), but it seems to me that there are no resources available outside of Nunavut.
I wish I could go live with my people and learn our ways... My fathers side is Inuit and my mom's side is mixed white. I never got to be with my fathers side of the family, and I grew up in New Mexico USA... I would do anything to live in nature, and take in all of the knowledge and language of our people. I feel robbed in a way... Even though there is information online, which I am grateful for, it isn't the same as learning from person to person. Still, thank you for these videos 💚
Hi, I am a migrant from India and residing in Canada in the province of British Columbia on a study visa. I am really fascinated by the indigenous culture and language. I wanted to learn at least one indigenous language but could not find any guide or book so far for that. I do not want to take any classes or courses because I really do not have any time for that. Does anyone know where I can buy a guide or book to learn an indigenous language?
Thanks :)
I love these language,please more videos of it.It would be nice to preserve from history 💙💙💙
a pa ta ka ga ma na sa la ja (ya) va ra qa nga nnga ła - ā pā tā kā gā mā nā sā lā jā vā rā qā ngā nngā łā, follow the same with i, ii, u & ū
and you have the alphabet.
This is an interesting language.
I never really heard this language before
until today. it has very nice sounds to it.
To a westener (Dane), who has been in Greenland for a short period, this video tells the whole world, how important it is to keep also languages with a limited numbers of speakers alive. Southern Canada has not, as I have heard it, always been very kind to indigenous inuit people and has even tried to wipe out its culture and languages. A shameful past, but hopefully Nunavut and Nunavik will breathe more freely in the future, as will Greenland in relation to Danes. I will be a hard struggle to gain independence, but no has the right to act like a colonial power or overrule others rights to freedom.
what dialect do I learn if I want to speak in Northern Labrador, in Nunatsiavut? Is all Inuktitut the same? I was told depending on the area inuktitut changes dialects. They are so different that they might as well be thier own separate langauges because they cant be understood by inuit from other areas. Each group of inuit have thier own version
How about starting off with basics like “hello” and “my name is________” along with explaining the highly contextual nature of verbs in the language?
this is great! Thank you
Beautiful country and language! I would love to see it one day. God bless
Fantastic learning videos. I've always needed help in pronunciation in Inuktitut. Thank you and I hope you make some more videos.
such a beautiful language!
What area is this spoken? It sounds a little like the language that the Ainu people from North Hokkaido Japan speak but still different.
You are so cool! Please post some more videos to help us learn Inuktitut. I love your energy.
yeah it's amazing xD I really love the great Inuit Goddess, Sedna. cool listening how inuit people speak!
I know this language to be close to Koryak, Itelmen, Yupik, and Chukchi, languages in Kamchatka, Northeastern Siberia. It could also be considered a part of the mega-Macro-Altaic family.
***** Perhaps not, but no one can know for sure. There are similarities between Northern American languages and those in Siberia, that is uncontested.
All classifications are arbitrary, someone decides where the borders are made and then a bunch of peoples or languages are clumped together, some willingly some not.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
The way the "q" sound is pronounced in Inuktitut sounds similar to some Mongolian words, I think there are some aspects of this language that are like Mongolian, but they are different of course, I just think that they could have the same origins way back maybe.
Old Man Azeri too
Indigenous Arctic Peoples generally have amazing linguistics, cultures, diets, architecture, and more
your culture is beautiful, I hope you're never going to lose it :(
Ilovethislanguageverymuch!
Amazing language
Three key phrases to survive anywhere in the world:
1) Where is the bathroom?
2) How much does it cost?
3) Screw you (or something similar, must be "lighter" than the f- word)
(The rest can be via hand gestures)
I would love to know how to say these phrases in Inuktitut.
Ainngai qanuippit? silasi qannuippa?
Bob ajunga Australia ngaaqpunga
Very impressed with the Education system that promotes the use and development of the Inuktitut language.
I believe that maintaining the use of their forbearer's language affirms and strengthens the identity of the student as an Inuit.
Qujannamiik for showing me the insight into your wonderful culture and environment
Uqausiq atausig naammajuittuq!
Hope to visit your country one day,
ulluqattiarin
Bob
So I’m Greenlandic and just now learned about Inuktitut which is harshly similar to Greenlandic in some way, and this is cool. I like how it almost sounds like the northern Greenlandic dialect in some of the pronounciations.
Would you say these languages are mutually intelligible aka could you understand an Inuktitut speaker and could they understand you?
P.s. doing some research on the matter and some insight from a native speaker would be amazing
Nunavut Is my favorite territory in Canada 🇨🇦
Now I finally know how to properly pronounce "Tuunbaq"
Wow, Inuktitut is interesting.
Also, greetings from Winnipeg.
Tom Scott anyone?
Yep, just watched his Inuktitut video and I was curious about this language
Me! like boxes of xs and and
Me, ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ and ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ
Yep
Hey! I'm studying the John Franklin expedition, And Id like to know what dialect or kind of Inuit language was spoken around where the ships sank. For some more info, both ships sank around king Williams island, and south of prince of wales island (Canadian, not Alaskan). thank you!
On King Williams island it's Natsilingmiutut.
On Prince of Wales and Queen Charlotte Islands they don't speak Inuit at all. They speak Haida
It's like a mix between asian and native american languages. beautiful!
Looks like a difficult language. What is the sentence structure ? Svo, vso
Is this language spoken by many people in Canada? I just discovered this language
Hi, is this the same dialect as in Kuujjuaq? Tks for letting me know.
Can you help me find some Inuktitut resources? Thanks.
Im taking 2 semesters of Inuktitut at my university, which dialect is this?
@pinz2022 Oh you meant a public school system, that changes everything.
Basically, any language/s you speak at home, you are able to achieve fluency in.
It is nothing I have ever heard before but it is so beautiful.
@ALXVid101
Oky-doke. And were you taught three languages by a publik skool system? On this continent?
How much can you understand of Greenlandic?
50% 80% more?
Incredible dialect. Lots of repetitions I hear in these phases. It is truly beautiful, & reminds me what we shall lose if we let capitalism consume the world in the coming 15 years. Hoping for a day we can visit, share, & learn about each other for free - in what I hear is called a resource based economy.
Love from the UK
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Oh my God they have an Arabic q!! Didn't expect this letter to be found in a Northern language
If I get a beautiful Inuit that would be great. Imma gonna travel North in the Summer
Is this Wingdings?
no. this is inuktitut. wingdings is more like a symbolic/special alphabet derived from dingbats.
the joke
your head
Lmao it definetly reminds me of it 😂😂
all writing systems are symbols
@@plumeater1
You're joking, right?
Does the "r" really need to be pronounced as a uvular fricative? I hate it in French and "standard" German...
Wow fascinating!
yay...i can say the last word perfectly..i guess i will learn this language from now on..2022..
The prosody is so similar to Japanese and Korean! Even though Altaic and Eurasiatic are poor and unsupported hypotheses, there has to be some kind of contact or influence between their ancestors-either that or the cold/latitude just lends itself to that type of intonation.
It sounds nothing like them, more of French mix
@@anastasiasgaming1380 In phonology, it does! That uvular R is in there.
Listen for the tone similarity in the Korean greeting and phrases like 'thank you'
@@legendsword7 holy, you're right. I hear a full speech of them. I shock. I'm naive to comment. Sorry for my rudeness.
@@anastasiasgaming1380 No worries we're all here learning together!
This is amazing! It looks very hard though.
Interesting alphabet
I'd love to learn it, sounds so beautiful.
Can you Inuits say.
Qin-day
Qiniq-sunny day
Qinniq-daily
Qinniqiniq-day by day?
So it's all phanatic right
Este vídeo es una joya, preservación y divulgación del idioma inuit, cuanto menos curioso.
That remind me of Turkish language, and the pronunciation of Arabic as well
This language sounds awesome. I wish it were the sole official language of Canada...
inuktitut is only one of the very many indigenous languages in canada, including the dené languages, ojibwe, cree languages, mi'qmak... it would be good to make inuktitut official but let's not stop there :)
I have a question! How do you pronounce the name “Ikiaq”?
Nice language.
so is this a language spoken in alaska or greenland?
close. you see, alaska is near canada, so yes they speak this language, french, and mainly english. While greenland is practically owned by the danish, the inuits have more danish vocabulary in their language
it's spoken by some of the indigenous population in Northern Canada.
Neither. It's spoken in northern Canada
Nunavut
The writing is cool, feels like from space movies.
I would love to learn this language wow
@Simtropolitan
Yes, I know, once upon a time it was simply a matter of winter camps and summer camps, with variations of sod and stone houses in winter and tents in summer. Before missionaries and government imposed their will there was no such thing as fixed villages.
A mixed blessing, as before there were artificially fixed towns, there was no wailing and breastbeating over "global warming" eroding away our "ancient, ancestral dwellings".
Thank you.
The strangely attractive character from Soul (2020) brought me here
@Simtropolitan
But seriously, I've read that in Alaskan bush villages, for instance, this sort of bilingual education has had the same consequences there that it has in East L.A.. Namely, you end up with kids who can't speak or write properly in either language.
Provides plenty of jobs for teachers and bureaucrats though...
I love the pronunciation of Inuktitut
One of my friends, this one is Inuit / Mi kmaq mix, has passed away recently, 1 month ago today . she never learned any of her languages except how to spell her name..
I already know quite a few languages, Dutch, Japanese, bit of Lebanese arabic, some French (European French - like in Paris of Marseille, but not so much french Quebec of acadian).. Mandarin Chinese. (tiny bit of korean too)
Holy lifton Lord, I can't promise I'll succeed with this one!! but as a white European-Canadian,
I will attempt it, if I don't succeed, sorry notsorry , cuz I tried 🙃🙂
ill take what i learn back to Europe when I leave
Which dialect is this?
Do you pronounce "q" like "h" in English? Does it have "r" like French r?
Yes to the R, but no to the Q.
The Q in Inuktitut is pronounced like a K, except it's at the back of your throat.
Concise is good
*Can someone explain why their words are connected?*
Inuktitut is a polysynthetic language. It has a very complex verb conjugation.
Tell her a joke! She might get Inuit (into it) lol
This question goes out to all inuit people: I really love the inuit culture and I'm totaly interested in different Tattoo cultures.
About 2 - 3 years ago I found out about the sewing technique that was and is still used in inuit groups. I would really like to get a Tattoo in this way and I'm asking you if you would say that that's okay to do or not. I don't try to steal a culture or make fun of it. Just as I am learning different languages I want to get to know other countries and cultures and appreciate them. What do you say?
VictoriaQc Canada why does it matter
ᓱᒃᑲᐃᒋᐊᕐᓗᑏᑦ ᐅᖃᕈᓐᓇᖅᑭᑦ?
I was searching up how to speak eskimo & this came up, so is this a form of eskimo?
Eskimo comes from the Algonquin people - our tribe used the term "Wskimo" pronounced "Ou-ski-mo" which means "He who eats raw" Wski- "New, fresh, raw" -mo "to eat something living" , it was used because the Inuit called the Algonquin people "Lice" because they lived in the forest. Both are insult terms, but fun history. Yes, Inuit is part of "eskimo" languages, but they are not referred to as such. It's fine though, not everyone knows that, you did the best you could!
Eccentric Emolga There are a few different Inuit languages, Inuktitut is one of them. Greenlandic is another common one. It's a beautiful sounding language family. ☺
In Alaska we have several different types of eskimos Inuipiq and Inupit who are related to the Canadian Inuit and these people from Greenland and other eskimos who are not that closely related such as the Yupik.and they do not want to be called Inuit but prefer eskimo. see ua-cam.com/video/ZJRI8ciVE1w/v-deo.html
Eskimo is actually considered offensive
South Africans can learn this language easily. They have a lot of Qs and Ngs which produce click sounds in their vocabularies.
It's so cool and hard at the same time. Lol
I have the melody in my head - la lala la la laaaaaaa
what university is that?
Hva faen er problemet ditt?
does anyone know where i can finds on Inuktitut grammar
Tough pronunciation though
Greetings from Iran 🇮🇷