Language inuit

The inuit belongs to the family of the Langues eskimo-aléoutes spoken by the people Inuit. More than one language, it is about a linguistic Continuum which is subdivided in sixteen varieties, they-even gathered in four great units:

the Inupiaq (northern of the Alaska)
the inuktun (Arctic Canadian Westerner)
the Inuktitut (Arctic Eastern Canadian)
the Kalaallisut (Greenland)

The full number of speakers is of approximately: 80000.

The inuit, just as the other languages eskaléoutes, represents a particular type of agglutinant Langue called polysynthetic Langue: it “synthesizes” on a radical given suffixes and grammatical Morphème S leading to the formation of long “sentence words”. It is habit to say that the inuites have a hundred words to say snow, but they are in fact “sentence words” formed starting from “molten snow” or “snow fraiche” for example.

Lexicon

uvanga: me
ivvit: you
ilissi: you
uvagut: us
anaana: mother, mom
ataata: father, dad
qiturngaq: child (wire or girl of qqn)

irniq: wire
panik: girl
nukaq: junior by the same sex as oneself, brother or sister junior (you)
angajuk: elder of the same sex as oneself, elder brother or sister (E)
najak: sister of a man (junior or elder)
ani: brother of a woman (junior or elder)
anaanatsiaq: grandmother
ataatatsiaq: grandfather
irngutaq: small-child (boy or girl)
ui (K): husband
nuliaq: marry
piaraq: infant (up to 3-4 years)
surusiq: older child
inummarik: adult
inutuqaq: elder, nobody old
qallunaaq: white, European, not inuit
went: litt. " autre" , the other Amerindians (e.g. algonquiens create)
kina: who?
qanuq: how?
qanga: when?
nani: where?
Li: yes
aakka: not
immaqaa: can be
mik: please
qujannamiik: thank you

French loans

Anorak (< annuraaq " vêtement"), igloo (< iglu " places habitables" i.e house or shelters) and kayak (< qajaq ) are words of origin inuit.

See too

Internal bonds

Languages eskimo-aléoutes

Zh-min-nan: Inuit-gí

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