GREENLANDIC LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, & CULTURE

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  • Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
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    Greenlandic is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by about 57,000 people, primarily Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. Closely related to Canadian Inuit languages like Inuktitut, it is the most widely spoken language in its family. In June 2009, Greenland's government declared Greenlandic the sole official language to strengthen it against Danish influence. The main dialect is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), followed by Tunumiit oraasiat (East Greenlandic). Greenlandic is polysynthetic, enabling the formation of long words through the combination of roots and suffixes. It was introduced to Greenland by the Thule/Proto Inuit people in the 1200s.
    Greenland is a North American autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, alongside the Faroe Islands. Both territories' citizens are full Danish citizens. Nuuk is Greenland's capital and largest city. Positioned between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Greenland is the world's largest island and home to the northernmost point on Earth, Kaffeklubben Island. Greenland is noted for its vast tundra and immense glaciers.
    Hunting is integral to Greenlandic culture, with many Greenlanders still hunting part-time for food and materials. The kayak, a traditional hunting vessel made from seal skin over a whalebone or driftwood frame, is a cultural icon. Although igloos are often associated with all Inuit, they were traditionally used only by the people of Canada's Central Arctic and the Qaanaaq area of Greenland. Sled dogs and dog sledding are also significant cultural elements. Greenlandic cuisine features fish, seafood, and marine mammal meat, including seal and whale, as well as reindeer, birds, and other game. A tradition called 'kaffemik' involves families welcoming guests into their homes for celebrations. Traditional crafts made from stone, bone, skins, and beads are available throughout Greenland.
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Комментарии • 101

  • @Lana-pf5ce
    @Lana-pf5ce 4 месяца назад +63

    My favourite indigenous language from the Americas! It’s just satisfying to listen to

    • @goulven05
      @goulven05 4 месяца назад +5

      I know right? It sounds lovely and fascinating ❤

  • @gabriezoid
    @gabriezoid 4 месяца назад +52

    Qupanuk would love this

  • @Kirill7775
    @Kirill7775 4 месяца назад +45

    Респект Гренландии за то, что сохранили свой национальный язык и идентичность!👍

    • @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica
      @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica 4 месяца назад +4

      Yes, my friend Russian man!

    • @aitokoojii1462
      @aitokoojii1462 4 месяца назад +10

      They have been left alone, so they have been able to preserve it. What is happening to most of the world's native languages is sad.

    • @MrAllmightyCornholioz
      @MrAllmightyCornholioz 4 месяца назад +8

      Too bad the Russian persecuted their Alaskan cousins tho.

    • @goulven05
      @goulven05 4 месяца назад +2

      ⁠@@aitokoojii1462 Yep it’s unfortunate, hope they will be able to revitalize their languages one day

    • @goulven05
      @goulven05 4 месяца назад +1

      @@MrAllmightyCornholioz Yeah 😢

  • @Wolfgonbuaf
    @Wolfgonbuaf 4 месяца назад +40

    Greenlandic language has two main dialects kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) and Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic)
    The dialect used in the video is probably kalaallisut

    • @memesnamaykonteksto4381
      @memesnamaykonteksto4381 4 месяца назад +5

      And Thule Greenlandic(Inughuit)

    • @Svnfold
      @Svnfold 4 месяца назад +1

      Inuktun in northern Greenland

    • @Wolfgonbuaf
      @Wolfgonbuaf 4 месяца назад +3

      @@Svnfold not Greenlandic

    • @Lana-pf5ce
      @Lana-pf5ce 4 месяца назад +3

      Tunumiisut speakers use little to no danish/English loan words and it is very distinct from Kalaallisut. It would be interesting to see it here

  • @FictionHubZA
    @FictionHubZA 4 месяца назад +17

    Idk why, but hearing that Greenlandic, which has 50 000 speakers, is the most spoken language in its language family, made me sad.
    It is a very beautiful and unique language.

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q 4 месяца назад +9

      There are only 155,792 Inuit people so it's not because they don't speak their languages it's just because they are very few (because of the climate)

  • @goulven05
    @goulven05 4 месяца назад +12

    Finally a video on Greenlandic! I love Greenland, hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷🇬🇱❤

  • @boink800
    @boink800 4 месяца назад +21

    You see a *few* words borrowed from Danish and even one from English.

    • @RicardoBaptista33
      @RicardoBaptista33 4 месяца назад +1

      Which one came from English?

    • @boink800
      @boink800 4 месяца назад +4

      @@RicardoBaptista33 "Bye"

    • @Knotreally
      @Knotreally 4 месяца назад +4

      You see the names of imported goods borrowed. This is pretty standard among languages. Only a conscious effort can change this, i.e. when they invent new words for new items or thoughts.

    • @kaudsiz
      @kaudsiz 4 месяца назад

      @@boink800”Bye” is Chinese

    • @boink800
      @boink800 4 месяца назад +2

      @@kaudsiz Are we funny? Ha, ha, ha and ha

  • @johnmac6086
    @johnmac6086 4 месяца назад +12

    Life is amazing, Aqagu Takuss❤❤❤

    • @richlisola1
      @richlisola1 4 месяца назад +2

      I know who says that…

  • @Goldenka
    @Goldenka 4 месяца назад +11

    Some sound are sooooo similar to Mongolian ;o

    • @FictionHubZA
      @FictionHubZA 4 месяца назад +3

      It kinda reminds me of Finnish.

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q 4 месяца назад +5

      ​@@FictionHubZAmaybe because of all the long vowels and geminated consonants and the long words

  • @agnirudradas7013
    @agnirudradas7013 4 месяца назад +7

    Love Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and thier people language and culture 🇬🇱🤍❤️

  • @yolandao.o5255
    @yolandao.o5255 4 месяца назад +3

    Greenland seems really an interesting place. Love from the Philippines ❤ Sana sa susunod, magkaroon ako ng pagkakataon na makabisita sa maganda niyong isla! Medyo marami-rami na rin akong marinig tungkol sa Greenland kasi may sinusundan akong channel na pagmamay-ari ni Qupanuk.

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi 4 месяца назад +3

    Great deep dive thanks.

  • @NorAinnieDeca
    @NorAinnieDeca 4 месяца назад +2

    Nice video, Andy! Keep the great job!😊 Next this please. I will wait for it. Chad and Romanian Language!😊

  • @yurihenrique4715
    @yurihenrique4715 4 месяца назад +3

    I always watch your videos, I wanted this video so bad i'm from Brazil

  • @lj3wk
    @lj3wk 4 месяца назад +4

    Can you make a video of the difference between Cypriot sana and Cypriot Greek?

  • @astridwolf911
    @astridwolf911 4 месяца назад +2

    Andy, please make a video about the Nenets people! Mostly tundra Nenets please 🙏

  • @shawolzen4893
    @shawolzen4893 4 месяца назад +2

    Hey could you pls compare irish and Italian next because there's a theory that italo-celtic is a major branch (like balto-slavic and indo-iranian) in the indo european family

  • @sunduncan1151
    @sunduncan1151 4 месяца назад +6

    Greenlandic phonology is likely influenced by Danish. I notice ‘R’ is gutteral, similar to Danish, Standard German and French.

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q 4 месяца назад +1

      The R in Greenlandic is not a rhotic sound it was always guttural it's only written with an R because the orthography is based on danish

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q 4 месяца назад +2

      The only Danish influence is in vocabulary the phonology is very close to other Inuit languages and the differences aren't because of Danish (for example the R in Greenlandic is the same as in Inuktitut and Iñupiaq (where the same sound is written Ġ) that weren't influenced by Danish and on the other hand Greenlandic has the sound /ɬ/ (written ll) in the word illu (house) where Inuktitut has iglu (the source of the English word igloo) but Danish doesn't have this sound)

  • @ryanmartinez7213
    @ryanmartinez7213 4 месяца назад +2

    Greetings to Greenland people.

  • @brendangordon2168
    @brendangordon2168 4 месяца назад +4

    Sounds like Finnish with lots of /q/ added

    • @Uralicchannel
      @Uralicchannel 27 дней назад

      Some linguists believe they are related

  • @ABTrainsYT
    @ABTrainsYT Месяц назад

    I love how Greenlandic double L has the same sound as Welsh double L

  • @ssangari
    @ssangari 4 месяца назад +1

    finallllyyy

  • @Vajrasattvam
    @Vajrasattvam 4 месяца назад +2

    Can you plz do Marathi?

  • @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica
    @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica 4 месяца назад +2

    *Aleluia!* The Greenland language!

  • @Blackboardrjrnei4i4u
    @Blackboardrjrnei4i4u 4 месяца назад +2

    Can you please do Maori and Tahitian, please?!!!! and nice video!!!!

  • @окристина
    @окристина 4 месяца назад

    очень красивый язык!! ❤️🙏🏻

  • @enzo2.2
    @enzo2.2 4 месяца назад +1

    2 videos at same time

  • @yukiousuzumi2595
    @yukiousuzumi2595 4 месяца назад

    Numbers are extremely important, why do they make it so verbose and complicated in Greenlandic language??? It looks to me like a pental system like they have base words for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and then 6, 11, 16, and 12 = 11 + 2; 17 = 16 + 2, etc. Even so there are so many exceptions, for example 8 = 6 + 3, but 9 ≠ 6 + 4, yet 19 = 16 + 4. If quatre-vingt-dix-neuf in French is mindblowing, this is cryptic.

  • @direxmann3897
    @direxmann3897 4 месяца назад +3

    It looks like the L is pronounced a bit like in mongolian languages

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q 4 месяца назад +1

      Only Ll (double l) like in welsh

    • @vivianeden9529
      @vivianeden9529 2 месяца назад

      im not sure if this is standard in any greenlandic dialect, but the female speaker def seems to have a voiced fricated single l. the male speaker in the first section definitely doesn't fricate it, though, so i'm not sure.

  • @hmg4044
    @hmg4044 4 месяца назад

    Please please please
    We want video about Dothraki language or high valyrian language
    You made about Elvish an Na’avi
    Please please please

    • @AzalnArif
      @AzalnArif 4 месяца назад

      If you want it you can contribute it yourself if you speak it

  • @Wiliam.p.q
    @Wiliam.p.q 4 месяца назад +2

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @ANTSEMUT1
    @ANTSEMUT1 4 месяца назад +7

    Lima gangish. 😅😅😅

    • @kzm-cb5mr
      @kzm-cb5mr 4 месяца назад +8

      Greenlandic: talLIMAt
      Austronesians: 🤨

    • @DonTornado
      @DonTornado 4 месяца назад +1

      Honorary member of the Lima gang lol

    • @polishhussarmapping258
      @polishhussarmapping258 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@kzm-cb5mr Jokes aside, I've seen a paper about prehistoric connections between Eskimo-Aleut and Austronesian.

    • @joagalo
      @joagalo 4 месяца назад +1

      @@polishhussarmapping258 Hold on, people! Could be just convergent evolution.

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 3 месяца назад

      @@polishhussarmapping258 really mind posting the source here?

  • @KingsleyAmuzu
    @KingsleyAmuzu 4 месяца назад +2

    Are they related to the languages of America?

    • @penguinlim
      @penguinlim 4 месяца назад +12

      it's related to some of them in northern Canada and Alaska.

    • @polishhussarmapping258
      @polishhussarmapping258 4 месяца назад +4

      It's part of the Eskimo-Aleut family, which also includes languages spoken in Canada and Alaska, like Inuktitut, Iñupiaq and Yupik. But as far as we now, they aren't related to any "American Indian" languages, which you probably meant.

  • @anthem1982
    @anthem1982 4 месяца назад +1

    The R sound is same to that of French.
    The Q and the K sounds exactly same to me.
    Is there any difference between these?

    • @FarberBob678
      @FarberBob678 4 месяца назад +2

      Yes, the K is a velar plosive and the Q is a uvular plosive

    • @anthem1982
      @anthem1982 4 месяца назад +1

      @raffiklausner5016
      Thanks for your answer.
      Though I can't distinguish these two, there's a difference.
      This is something like the TH sounds in English.
      The TH sounds are shared with a few languages like Spanish, Greece.
      I also practiced hard pronunce it.

    • @norielgames4765
      @norielgames4765 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@anthem1982they're different in which part of the mouth you use to pronounce it. The Q I think you use the uvula. I think it sounds similar to the Arabic Q though I'm not sure.
      They do sound different to me. I guess once you hear the difference you can't unhear it

  • @Wiliam.p.q
    @Wiliam.p.q 4 месяца назад +2

    Could make English Irish 😢❤

    • @richlisola1
      @richlisola1 4 месяца назад

      What’s English Irish?

  • @Uralicchannel
    @Uralicchannel 27 дней назад

    "Manniit" sounds like Finnish "munat" (same exact meaning).

  • @KingsleyAmuzu
    @KingsleyAmuzu 4 месяца назад +2

    Next, Taiwanese Chinese and Japanese?

  • @lazspook666
    @lazspook666 4 месяца назад

    Where Did You Make The People Wearing Costumes?

  • @olyamereacre3326
    @olyamereacre3326 26 дней назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @dimulaidari
    @dimulaidari 4 месяца назад

    Similiar to Inuit Languages.

  • @SowerValler
    @SowerValler 4 месяца назад +1

    2:28

  • @sahilalom8037
    @sahilalom8037 4 месяца назад

    Very difficult language. Each word are long and having very tricky pronunciation.

  • @누리가온가르다라
    @누리가온가르다라 4 месяца назад

    Good Language

  • @joseg.solano1891
    @joseg.solano1891 4 месяца назад

    Pashayi languages, please

  • @daveshen0880
    @daveshen0880 4 месяца назад

    Correction.
    Hello = Inuugujooq. Good Morning = Iterluarnaaq. No = Naagga. See you later = Takussaagut. Bye = Inuulluarna.

    • @marakagawa637
      @marakagawa637 4 месяца назад

      So this video is focusing on kallasitut, southeastern Greenland. :)

  • @MrAllmightyCornholioz
    @MrAllmightyCornholioz 4 месяца назад +2

    Sounds like a Dane speaking an Inuit language

  • @sot1susy-amogus
    @sot1susy-amogus 4 месяца назад +1

    1st

  • @codenameeaglecooldown900
    @codenameeaglecooldown900 4 месяца назад +2

    Eskimos was not indigenous, the native Greenland is Grønlandsk

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 3 месяца назад

      Both are long gone, and Grønlandsk was in the south

    • @vivianeden9529
      @vivianeden9529 2 месяца назад +1

      @@ANTSEMUT1inuit languages def arent gone from greenland, not sure where you got that notion from.

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 2 месяца назад

      @@vivianeden9529 i didn't mean the Greenlandic inuit, but the Norse and the people of the Dorset culture.

  • @HigashikataDio
    @HigashikataDio 4 месяца назад

    Ayoo

  • @siyacer
    @siyacer 4 месяца назад

    Baaj

  • @ThuyTho-c6g
    @ThuyTho-c6g 4 месяца назад

    Can you do language name “nuõrttsääʹmǩiõll” please

  • @DG_5856
    @DG_5856 4 месяца назад

    Sound like a bridge between asian and native american languages