Inuktun

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With Inuktun the northern is dialect of Greenland designated; it is thus one of the Eskimo-Aleut languages . In the area of Qaanaaq (Thule) it is spoken by just under 800 Inughuit in northern Greenland and does not have its own script. In terms of phonetics and grammar, it occupies an intermediate position between West Greenlandic (the official language of Greenland) and Canadian Inuktitut .

Typical of the Inuktun sound system is the h, which appears instead of the West Greenlandic s and is sometimes pronounced as ç (like ch in me), so after a and between two u. In contrast to West Greenlandic, the diphthongs ai and au and many consonant clusters have been preserved (e.g. in Inu kt un ). However, the West Greenlandic pronunciation with ai → aa and the assimilation of consonants ( Inu tt un ) is already gaining ground among younger speakers . ​​

literature

• Michael Fortescue: Inuktun. An Introduction to the Language of Qaanaaq, Thule / En introduktion til Thulesproget , Copenhagen: Institut for eskimologi, 1991. ISBN 978-8-78-787416-8 . English and Danish.

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1. ^ Jan Lublinski : Dead polar bears, melting ice , DLF, Forschungs Aktuell , December 21, 2011 (January 5, 2012)
2. ↑ Fortescue, Michael: Inuktun. An Introduction to the Language of Qaanaaq, Thule / En introduktion til Thulesproget, Copenhagen: Institut for eskimologi, 1991, pp. 2 ff.