Greenlandic Grammar Part I - Morphology (Kalaallisut) 

Greenlandic aka Kalaallisut is an Inuit language mainly spoken in Greenland (~50.000 speakers). Kalaallisut is a polysynthetic language famous for it’s extremely long ’sentence words’. In part I of this video series we look at the complex but fascinating morphology of the Greenlandic language. Warning: this Greenlandic Grammar video series is intended for true language nerds!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Origins of Greenlandic
03:13 Fun fact
03:41 Table of contents
04:13 Morphology
05:00 Morphemes
06:11 Polysynthetic language
09:41 Tusaanngitsuusaartuaannarsinnaanngivipputit
10:51 Derivation
13:20 Fun fact
13:58 Summary
14:33 Part II - What to expect?
15:15 The end
If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know in the comments! Want to learn Greenlandic? Check out the resources on the following website (copy link): oqa.dk/
I would like to thank all of those who inspired and helped me to make this video. Special thanks to Nanako, Stian and all the wonderful people whom I met during my stay in Greenland.
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