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| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5377 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes  | Message 1 of 65 18 June 2010 at 2:49am | IP Logged | ||
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(I must apologize my style of posting.)
In this thread, you can get some help from me, if you want to learn some Greenlandic, or if you speak a little, and want to try write/speak it. ^^' I'll teach you some basic grammar, and useful sentences. - I can also help you translate texts.. You'll just have to tell me which kind of "grammar", "sentences", and "texts" that you want me to teach you, or translate for you. (I må virkelig undskylde min dårlige formulering på engelsk. - Hvis en moderator mener at det kunne formuleres bedre, så ret endelig min post. På forhånd tak.) Ilikkangaqarluarisi! :D Edited by Miiyii on 18 June 2010 at 2:51am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5317 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 2 of 65 18 June 2010 at 4:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Woah, that's an awesome language. Are there materials for it in Finnish or English?
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| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5377 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes | Message 3 of 65 18 June 2010 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah.. I haven't really showed anything in Greenlandic yet.. (Except that little end-sentence. :P)
.. Umm.. No.. Unfortunately not. Greenlandic is a very little language you know, so most materials are for Greenlandic kids only, which is in Greenlandic as you probably know, and then some Danish. :/ .. But that's actually kinda like why i made this topic! :P - I can help you with some beginners stuff, as i wrote. :P .. I just haven't figured out "what" I'd teach, so thats why I ask you to tell me what you want to learn! ^^' ..But.. I think I could nail some useful sentences? Okay so.. I'll start from the easiest ones: (Easy) Yes - Suu/Aap No - Naa Hi! - Hej! Hello - Kutaa (Be aware that T is pronounced D before a vowel.) Goodbye - Baaj Goodmorning - Kumoorn (Be aware that K is pronounced G before a vowel.) Goodnight - Kunaat Okay so.. Many of these words would probably be recognizable for Danish speakers, since those words actually are borrowed from Danish. Another useful thing could be the English "WH" words (and the single "HO" word. :P): Who? - Kina? What? - Qanoq? (Q is pronounced somewhere between a hard K and a throat R.) Where? - Sumi? Why? - Sooq? How? - Qanoq? (As you see, Qanoq is used for two words, so you'd probably need some training there. :P) .. Okay.. So.. I don't know if this is like useful, useful, but as I told you, I haven't prepared anything.. Unfortunately. Oh, and btw.. I've thought about adding a little "funny" thing, which I call the sentence of the day! hehe.. You should try it! .. Maybe it would be useful! Today's sentence: Kutaa! - Qanoq ippit? - Hello! How are you? 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5641 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 65 18 June 2010 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Din engelsk er fint, Miiyii! Kaerlig hilsen, Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5632 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 5 of 65 18 June 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, it's very impressive that someone who speaks Greenlandic is on the forum and it's great to have a thread about it in the forum.
Am I imagining, or do the Greenlandic greetings sound very much like Danish/Norwegian with a different spelling? Are these greetings "imported"? I thought the Greenlandic language was more similar to eskimo languages than the Scandinavian... I mean languages like (erm, what's it called.... Inuit....Inupiat or something like that....?) Everyone on Greenland can speak Danish too, right? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5377 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes | Message 6 of 65 19 June 2010 at 12:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Fasulye@ Tak skal du have, du! :)
Cordelia@ Yeah! I thought we needed that on the "Nordic Fora" :P. .. And yes, it's right, the Greenlandic greetings are imported/borrowed from Danish, as well as some other words. .. And again yes, the Greenlandic language is related to it's neighbor languages of Canada, but because it has been under Denmark for almost 300 years, some words has replaced the native words because they were shorter, and less "hard" to pronounce. (But that doesn't make Greenlandic an easy language! hehe. :P) And unfortunately very few people speak Danish and English outside the capital (Nuuk). It's actually because of the big differences between those three languages. Just look at the example of the "WH" words i made. (Hmm.. Maybe I should write an example of the language in a whole sentence? ..) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5632 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 7 of 65 20 June 2010 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Haha, intressant!
Så hur många ord för "snö" och "is" finns det på grönländska då? (känd myt att eskimo-språk har 100 ord för det..) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miiyii Groupie Greenland Joined 5377 days ago 59 posts - 97 votes | Message 8 of 65 20 June 2010 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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På grønlandsk findes der 2 ord for sne, og 2 ord for is. Men der er regler for hvornår man bruger ordene.
F.eks: Aput - Sne Nittaa - Faldende sne Siku - Is Sermeq - Is PÅ noget. (F.eks, havet, huset osv.) .. Det er faktisk lidt pudsigt at det er sådan, men også interresant. Jeg mener faktisk også at jeg har skrevet en post engang, om det besværlige søskende system på grønlandsk, som faktisk er sværere end is og sne ordene. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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