GREENLANDIC LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, & CULTURE

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  • čas přidán 17. 05. 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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Komentáře • 95

  • @Lana-pf5ce
    @Lana-pf5ce Před 14 dny +50

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

    • @goulven05
      @goulven05 Před 14 dny +4

      I know right? It sounds lovely and fascinating ❤

  • @Kirill7775
    @Kirill7775 Před 14 dny +40

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

    • @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica
      @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica Před 14 dny +4

      Yes, my friend Russian man!

    • @aitokoojii1462
      @aitokoojii1462 Před 14 dny +9

      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 Před 14 dny +8

      Too bad the Russian persecuted their Alaskan cousins tho.

    • @goulven05
      @goulven05 Před 14 dny +2

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

    • @goulven05
      @goulven05 Před 14 dny +1

      @@MrAllmightyCornholioz Yeah 😢

  • @gabriezoid
    @gabriezoid Před 14 dny +34

    Qupanuk would love this

  • @Moye450
    @Moye450 Před 14 dny +38

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

    • @memesnamaykonteksto4381
      @memesnamaykonteksto4381 Před 14 dny +5

      And Thule Greenlandic(Inughuit)

    • @Svnfold
      @Svnfold Před 14 dny +1

      Inuktun in northern Greenland

    • @Moye450
      @Moye450 Před 14 dny +3

      @@Svnfold not Greenlandic

    • @Lana-pf5ce
      @Lana-pf5ce Před 14 dny +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

  • @ElectrostatiCrow
    @ElectrostatiCrow Před 14 dny +10

    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 Před 14 dny +6

      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 Před 14 dny +10

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

  • @yolandao.o5255
    @yolandao.o5255 Před 12 dny +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.

  • @agnirudradas7013
    @agnirudradas7013 Před 14 dny +5

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

  • @boink800
    @boink800 Před 14 dny +14

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

    • @RicardoBaptista33
      @RicardoBaptista33 Před 14 dny +1

      Which one came from English?

    • @boink800
      @boink800 Před 14 dny +3

      @@RicardoBaptista33 "Bye"

    • @Knotreally
      @Knotreally Před 14 dny +5

      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 Před 14 dny

      @@boink800”Bye” is Chinese

    • @boink800
      @boink800 Před 14 dny +2

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

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi Před 14 dny +3

    Great deep dive thanks.

  • @johnmac6086
    @johnmac6086 Před 14 dny +7

    Life is amazing, Aqagu Takuss❤❤❤

  • @lj3wk
    @lj3wk Před 14 dny +4

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

  • @Goldenka
    @Goldenka Před 14 dny +9

    Some sound are sooooo similar to Mongolian ;o

    • @ElectrostatiCrow
      @ElectrostatiCrow Před 14 dny +2

      It kinda reminds me of Finnish.

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q Před 14 dny +4

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

  • @yurihenrique4715
    @yurihenrique4715 Před 14 dny +3

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

  • @astridwolf911
    @astridwolf911 Před 14 dny +2

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

  • @NorAinnieDeca
    @NorAinnieDeca Před 14 dny +1

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

  • @ssangari
    @ssangari Před 14 dny +1

    finallllyyy

  • @shawolzen4893
    @shawolzen4893 Před 14 dny +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

  • @suedhead
    @suedhead Před 10 dny

    очень красивый язык!! ❤️🙏🏻

  • @BrazilMustBetrayRagedKraine

    This language is really great !

  • @ryanmartinez7213
    @ryanmartinez7213 Před 14 dny +2

    Greetings to Greenland people.

  • @lazstu19
    @lazstu19 Před 14 dny

    Where Did You Make The People Wearing Costumes?

  • @Velociraptor_Anglo-merica

    *Aleluia!* The Greenland language!

  • @enzo2.2
    @enzo2.2 Před 14 dny +1

    2 videos at same time

  • @Wiliam.p.q
    @Wiliam.p.q Před 14 dny +2

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @Vajrasattvam
    @Vajrasattvam Před 14 dny +2

    Can you plz do Marathi?

  • @KingsleyAmuzu
    @KingsleyAmuzu Před 14 dny +2

    Next, Taiwanese Chinese and Japanese?

  • @hmg4044
    @hmg4044 Před 14 dny

    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 Před 13 dny

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

  • @NuligaonKardala
    @NuligaonKardala Před 14 dny

    Good Language

  • @brendangordon2168
    @brendangordon2168 Před 11 dny +3

    Sounds like Finnish with lots of /q/ added

  • @anthem1982
    @anthem1982 Před 13 dny +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?

    • @raffiklausner5016
      @raffiklausner5016 Před 13 dny +2

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

    • @anthem1982
      @anthem1982 Před 13 dny +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 Před 12 dny +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

  • @Blackboardrjrnei4i4u
    @Blackboardrjrnei4i4u Před 14 dny +2

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

  • @KingsleyAmuzu
    @KingsleyAmuzu Před 14 dny +2

    Are they related to the languages of America?

    • @penguinlim
      @penguinlim Před 14 dny +12

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

    • @polishhussarmapping258
      @polishhussarmapping258 Před 14 dny +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.

  • @joseg.solano1891
    @joseg.solano1891 Před 14 dny

    Pashayi languages, please

  • @direxmann3897
    @direxmann3897 Před 14 dny +3

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

  • @dimulaidari3714
    @dimulaidari3714 Před 14 dny

    Similiar to Inuit Languages.

  • @SowerValler
    @SowerValler Před 14 dny

    2:28

  • @matviysukhachov
    @matviysukhachov Před 6 dny

    4:06

  • @sunduncan1151
    @sunduncan1151 Před 14 dny +5

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

    • @Kurious__
      @Kurious__ Před 14 dny +4

      also a lot of loanwords from Danish

    • @user-kb8zv5ob2q
      @user-kb8zv5ob2q Před 14 dny +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 Před 14 dny +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)

  • @ANTSEMUT1
    @ANTSEMUT1 Před 14 dny +6

    Lima gangish. 😅😅😅

    • @kzm-cb5mr
      @kzm-cb5mr Před 14 dny +6

      Greenlandic: talLIMAt
      Austronesians: 🤨

    • @DonTornado
      @DonTornado Před 14 dny

      Honorary member of the Lima gang lol

    • @polishhussarmapping258
      @polishhussarmapping258 Před 14 dny +2

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

    • @joagalo
      @joagalo Před 14 dny

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

  • @Wiliam.p.q
    @Wiliam.p.q Před 14 dny +2

    Could make English Irish 😢❤

  • @LearnLanguageWithArelis

    Greenland 🇬🇱

  • @HigashikataDio
    @HigashikataDio Před 14 dny

    Ayoo

  • @sahilalom8037
    @sahilalom8037 Před 14 dny

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

  • @medbiologiste7609
    @medbiologiste7609 Před 14 dny

    A lot of q 😮

  • @sot1susy-amogus
    @sot1susy-amogus Před 14 dny +1

    1st

  • @daveshen0880
    @daveshen0880 Před 9 hodinami

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

    • @marakagawa637
      @marakagawa637 Před 6 hodinami

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

  • @MrAllmightyCornholioz
    @MrAllmightyCornholioz Před 14 dny +2

    Sounds like a Dane speaking an Inuit language

  • @codenameeaglecooldown900
    @codenameeaglecooldown900 Před 14 dny +2

    Eskimos was not indigenous, the native Greenland is Grønlandsk

  • @siyacer
    @siyacer Před 14 dny

    Baaj

  • @user-ob6qp8wg4l
    @user-ob6qp8wg4l Před 14 dny

    Can you do language name “nuõrttsääʹmǩiõll” please

  • @davideghirelli5856
    @davideghirelli5856 Před 13 dny

    Sound like a bridge between asian and native american languages