I speak Iñupiaq from North Slope and can understand nunavut speakers a lot better, we just don’t use the Inuvialuktun alphabet. I cannot understand greenlandic that well. Grammar is the same but the words are totally different
Amazing 😱 I had expected that there are more similarities between booth Inuit languages. But to me it sounds like grammar is quite the same 🤔 Do you understand each other, or is it like someone speaks a completely foreign language? 🇬🇱🇨🇦👍
@@Rosanumber1 Say no more. I speak Tunisian, it's hard to learn it. I can't type it either because we don't actually have a standardized version of the language.
Such beautiful languages. I'm from the Cook Islands and although we're 3200km away from New Zealand our languages are about 80% similar although we have more slang our Older words are the current dialects in New Zealand.
The Maori Waka came via Cook Islands. It is amazing to see Maori history stretching back across the pacific. Do you know how many generations between the Cook Islands Maori people arriving in the Cooks and the Waka departing for Aotearoa?
Cocos Islands dialect out in the Indian Ocean is very close to the Jakarta dialect called Betawi in Indonesia. But Cocos has some words that are no longer used in Jakarta and Jakarta dialect has many new words that have not reached Cocos.
It's great to hear the languages of the far north so elegantly spoken. As a Canadian, I'm glad to see our past mistakes in suppressing native languages have been unsuccessful.
As a USA citizen unfortunately…my tribes language is almost all dead. There are no fully lingual people left since I was 13. Yes some words and phrases are existing and the tribe is making some efforts but it’s too late. I saw it die off myself, But 80% of the tribe was killed within 20 years of meeting the English. The French dealt reasonably with us before.
I was in awe to see how many people were at that forum- I hope the politicians realize they must give the original people back the land and power so that culture can return stronger and survive these times. We are loosing a lot of native heritage
@@iammar1159 He did those things on the count that rhe object of his focus, should learn that not everything in lifecan also be scary, and we have to learn to act even in the face of fear, these thing are tought to us inuit as kids. If we just freeze and stond and stand, we die. Nature is wild.
The difference in words may be because of old Greenlandic culture I'm not entirely sure but I believe it was taboo to use a dead person's name back then, since people were often named after everyday objects, words had to change multiple times It may also be because of Danish loanwords, Denmark played a pretty important role in Greenlandic history While other Inuit languages were more influenced by English, tho I heard that they are pretty conservative languages, and loanwords can be somewhat rare Or it could simply be because Greenland is somewhat far from other Inuit people Since the colonisation of North America, the once more nomad lifestyle of Inuit people stopped, back then, the languages were probably more similar, with people moving arround and exchanging words. I heard the grammar of the Inuit languages are generally pretty similar not if identical I could be wrong, I don't speak any of those languages, I'd love learn more if I'm wrong If you want, just learn about it yourselves, it's really interesting Love from Quebec ❤
It's crazy how western Europeans love to claim they discover things where these people already were at. People of the artic circle tips of what are now different modern countries had already been there, in many cases we're still figuring out for how long. It's crazy that they had done it long before the compass and other navigation had been invented. Much like Polynesian Islanders figuring out how to get to literally every corner of the Pacific Ocean, and how they share the same word for a ship's mast, even if the rest of the languages drifted.
@@fabiolucas172 every culture has genetic admixture, but in the traditional sense when people from East Asia walked over to North America they did not have any interaction with European white people. That happened during the Age of Discovery
Nunavut and Nunavik people almost had similar languages to each other from what i can tell. Mostly since I heard most Nunavik songs in radios and videos. And charlie adams is popular across inuit regions
Very similar! I've been told that learning Swedish is easiest for Americans because the lingo or the way they build sentences and such is similar. Only 2 or 3 extra or different syllables? Not sure how true this is. What I do know is I want to move out of the USA to Greenland or somewhere nearby. I NEED to learn ASL, Spanish and whatever language of the area I decide to live someday.! And more languages because they are beautiful! ❤
