Difference between revisions of "Inuktitut phrasebook"
Revision as of 21:28, 20 September 2009Inuktitut is the name for the varieties of Inuit spoken in Canada. It is an Eskimo-Aleut language that known for being a language with lots of very long agglutinative words, owing to the fact that there are a very large number of infixes (parts of speech which modify the meaning of a word), but it does not have the same irregularities as Indo-European languages. There is also a rumour that the language has hundreds of different words for snow, in reality there are only four (these four are: spread-out snow - aput, snow like salt - pokaktok, newly-drifted snow - akelrorak and soft snow - mauyaôlertok). There are a few (not hundreds) of words relating to snow eg. snow block (auverk), igloo (iglu), snow knife (panar), snow on clothes, boots etc. (ayak).
Pronunciation GuideVowels
Consonants
Common dipthongs
Phrase list
ProblemsNumbersNumbers(system in the Greenlandic)0 - norlu 1 - atesi 2 - marul 3 - penqo 4 - sisama 5 - tellim 6 - arinlit 7 - arinmarlut 8 - arinpenqut 9 - qualgaot 10 - qilet 11 - aqnut 12 - aqnmarlut 13 - aqnpengut 14 - aqnsisamut 15 - aqntellimut 16 - arvirat 17 - arvimarlut 18 - arvipengut 19 - arvisisamut 20 - arvitellimut 30 - qiletapengut 40 - qiletasisamut 50 - qiletatellimut 60 - qiletarinlit 70 - qiletarinmarlut 80 - qiletarinpenqut 90 - qiletaqualgaot 100 - untrikat 1000 - tusinket TimeClock timeDurationDaysMonthsWriting time and dateColorsTransportationBus and trainDirectionsTaxiLodgingMoneyEatingBarsShoppingDrivingAuthority
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