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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Excellent content. I'm excitedly waiting for Part 2 :)
Oh my God!!!! Eventually a greenlandic video!!!!!!!!!! My favorite language!!!! PLEASE KEEP GOING!!!!! Thank you for teaching us!!!!! Greetings from Greece ❤❤
Woah this is crazy!! A word can be verbalised and then nominalised again all in the same construction… It’s like maths!
Keep making more of these, I love Greenlandic
I gave up learning Kalaallisut in the past on account of a lack of content to learn, but I found your video. I hope you keep uploading content. I don't know if someday I'll try to learn it again. Maybe your video will revive my interest in learning Kalaallisut. I don't know if you are aware, but there's a book teaching Kalaallisut. The book is An Introduction to Wester Greenlandic by Stian Lybech. It could be a helpful information. I hope you don't give up on this project.
PLEASE, MORE! MORE! MORE!!!
Bro made a banger and dipped
@GreenlandicGrammar
29 күн бұрын
Bro just getting warmed up
Please don't stop! This is one of the rare resources kalaallisut learners can snatch. Good work!
please keep going!!!
I loved this! Especially the morpheme breakdowns with etymomogical footnotes. Really gives you a look at polysynthesis from the inside. Please please please continue this series!
@GreenlandicGrammar
8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear! The other videos are in preparation :)
I'm looking forward to the next video! Greenlandic is such a cool and interesting language
I really like this video, I can’t wait for the next ones! 🙏
Thank you so much. Finally a video on Greenlandic. Very interesting. Qsgreenland made me curious and interested
Long time greenlander here. Although I've lived in Denmark for almost 18 years, I'm still fluent in Greenlandic. Some words are lost to me and I sometimes struggle with words. That's true for both my Greenlandic language and Danish language.
This is awesome! Keep up the good work, videomullu taassumunnga qujanarsuaq!!
@GreenlandicGrammar
11 ай бұрын
Illillu!
Yes! Finally Someone that Talks About the Greenlandic Language!
Torrak! Oqaatsit ataasiinnaat naammanngillat :)
As someone who's completely new to Eskimo-Aleut languages, this was a very informative video! The polysynthetic grammar of Greenlandic is fascinating! I'm looking forward to the next videos in the series!
Brilliant start! The video was informative, but not pedantic, and fun. As the video was over, I've instantly subscribed, and ready to sail northward into this linguistic journey!
Would love to see more. Resources on Kalaallisut are so sparse.
Wauw, je bent zo getalenteerd. Goed video, man.
@valentinaaugustina
7 ай бұрын
wat doet een nederlander hier!
Please make more!!!!
please make another one
Oh my god THANK YOU, there is so little material on Greenlandic out there!
You can also say Tiitorpunga and it means "i am drinking tea", Tiitortarpunga means "I usually drink tea" like its a habbit you do
Thank you, for the amazing video. Keep going! I would love to learn more about greenlandic language.
When I was reading about Kazakh I though that it is super agglutinative, but this is much much much more agglutinative.
@christopherellis2663
2 ай бұрын
Try Adyge...
please uploas another
Great video! Waiting eagerly for the next ones!
AMAZING PLEASE DO MORE
omg pleaseee i need mooooreee, i want to learn this language!!!!
Uuuu, saya tidak bisa menghindari menonton film penjelasan yang sangat bagus yang Anda buat, saya menyukainya❤
Please make more!
Subscribed and looking forward to more videos! Qujanarsuaq!
You could make a video dedicated only to the pronunciation as well. A lot of language learnings like to begin with the pronunciation of the target language. I appreciate your project teaching Kalaallisut.
@abarette_
4 ай бұрын
this is what the second video will be about, no?
Please update the series
we're still waiting for part two
i think i thought it's a word it's actually an entire sentence squeezing in 1 place? i think learning greenlandic challenge would be fun it's polysynthetic language i never learn this kind of langauge before
zeer bedankt voor de video en ik ben benieuwd naar de volgende
Please Come Back.... I Beg ,,🙂
excellent.
I need moreeee!!!!
I speak Finnish and i see some familiar looking words!! Which is odd because Finnish is in totally different language family. For example word "ase" meaning tool we also have word "ase" meaning weapon but also tool. I am really looking forward for next video, what other words could be familiar. I am curious to know what are the body parts in Greenlandic. The word "tool" stuck me strangly.
@GreenlandicGrammar
7 ай бұрын
That's an interesting find! Note that ASE in oqa|ase|qati|giit is actually the suffix USEQ that only becomes ASE after a number of sound rules are applied to it. I'll cover this in part II. In this regard, USEQ is more similar to the Finnish suffix IN in words like avain 'key', puhelin 'telephone' and kirjain 'letter (alphabet)'. In these words, IN is a nominalising suffix indicating some kind of instrument/tool: avain (avata 'to open' + IN = 'opening tool'), puhelin (puhella 'to talk' + IN = 'talking tool'), kirjain (kirjata 'to record' + IN = 'recording tool').
Nah bro this was way too cool to leave for ten months come on man :(
Can someone please translate these words for me. akimik piffissaq tamanna qinnuteqarninni manna tikillugu aningaasaliissutiginikuuat ilisivugut. +? immannguaq paasisimasanik Kalaallisutimillu oqalulluni piginnaasanit qaffasissutsinni tunisinnaavisigut?
Wouldn't 'oqaq' be a nominalised form of the verb oqar-?
Have you studied at Leiden University? Since you used Ayacucho as an example and i suspect i hear a dutch accent
Geluid klinkt ook goed
Woah mooie animaties ook
@GreenlandicGrammar
11 ай бұрын
Dank u dank u :)
Oleks tahtnud rohkem teada nende keelte seisundi kohta. Kas neid õpetatakse koolides? Kas kõnelejad on enamasti kakskeelsed või esineb ka selliseid keelekandjaid, kes oskavad ainult oma emakeelt? Kui palju neis trükiseid ilmub jne... Oleksin tänulik lisainfo eest!
@mikieriksenjensen8444
11 ай бұрын
Kalaallisut (and all the dialects) is the main language of Inuit in Greenland. We have books, news, songs, educating materials and other things in Kalaallisut. Nowadays I would say a lot of the people of Greenland are more or less trilingual. But yes theres also people that only speak the mothertongue. Even if they understand Danish to some level they dont speak it.
@GreenlandicGrammar
11 ай бұрын
Tere! Aitäh tagasiside eest. Eskimo-aleuudi keelte seisund on kohati väljasuremise lähedal aga kalaallisuti seisund on märksa parem, sest see keel on Gröönimaal ainus ametlik keel. Gröönlased on enamasti kakskeelsed, sest lõviosa oskab taani keelt, mida kasutatakse tihti igapäevases suhtlemises. Nooremad kõnelejad valdavad tavaliselt inglise keelt ka. Tegelikult on grööni keele seisund ja sellega seonduv keelepoliitika huvitav teema, mida tasuks käsitleda eraldi videos või koguni videosarjas. Käesolev videosari keskendub pigem grööni keele grammatikale ja õppimisele.
Tusáŋìtsúsártuánàrsinâŋìvipùtit. Qajaq, kayak
Tassa oqaatsivut!
is somebody swedish? :p