Greenlandic Grammar Part I - Morphology (Kalaallisut)

[@pain4066]

PLEASE MAKE THE REST OF THE SERIES 😭😭😭

[@Dimitra.Saltou]

Oh my God!!!! Eventually a greenlandic video!!!!!!!!!! My favorite language!!!! PLEASE KEEP GOING!!!!! Thank you for teaching us!!!!! Greetings from Greece ❤❤

[@dinokaijumaster1254]

Greece mentioned lets go

[@Degjoy]

Why “eventually”? It’s already been published.

[@johnnyrosso596]

Excellent content. I'm excitedly waiting for Part 2 :)

[@louischvs9395]

same here!

[@alexandregb566]

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.

[@rc1982]

PLEASE, MORE! MORE! MORE!!!

[@ChristianJiang]

Woah this is crazy!! A word can be verbalised and then nominalised again all in the same construction… It’s like maths!

[@DefinitelyACircle]

I myself am from Greenland, ever since I moved to Denmark, I lost all my memory of the Greenlandic language (to a large degree, I still remember the pronunciation of a majority of the words.) Greetings from an Inuit originally from Ilulissat.

[@papaxsmurf7678]

Please don't stop! This is one of the rare resources kalaallisut learners can snatch. Good work!

[@SofiaeJeromeBQ]

Keep making more of these, I love Greenlandic

[@100percent12]

Bro made a banger and dipped

[@GreenlandicGrammar]

Bro just getting warmed up

[@everettduncan7543]

He might be doing dilligent research 😊

[@VedaGamer20]

I love langaugss where affixes mean everything, thats why im learning sanskrit.

[@jackthecreature]

I'm looking forward to the next video! Greenlandic is such a cool and interesting language

[@phonaesthem]

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]

Glad to hear! The other videos are in preparation :)

[@peppermintcase]

This is awesome! Keep up the good work, videomullu taassumunnga qujanarsuaq!!

[@GreenlandicGrammar]

Illillu!

[@kakumee]

Wow I haven't seen so many Ms in Kalaallisut in a minit!! Is this in inuktun or eastern Greenlandic? Sorry I haven't been study much anymore, combo of being lazy and life😂

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

This is the best explanation of grammatical concepts (such at the differences between analytical, synthetic and polysynthetic languages) I've ever seen, and this is BEFORE even getting to Greenlandic. For this alone, I am liking the video!

[@federicoarrighi5459]

Yes! Finally Someone that Talks About the Greenlandic Language!

[@bazyl_ia6425]

My heart dropped for a second when you mentioned the snow thing. Don’t play with us like that 😭

[@HenrikKleist]

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.

[@midloran]

What does Greenlanders even do? What kind of life do they have? Is it hard to live in Greenland?

[@埊]

@@midloran What does double commenters do? what kind of life? is it hard to live when to be heard one needs to speak twofold?

[@midloran]

@@埊 It was not intentional, I only commented once. It's KZbin glitch dawg, lmao 😭

[@gargamel3478]

When I was reading about Kazakh I though that it is super agglutinative, but this is much much much more agglutinative.

[@christopherellis2663]

Try Adyge...

[@loisanderson6094]

Torrak! Oqaatsit ataasiinnaat naammanngillat :)

[@olivier0092]

Thank you so much. Finally a video on Greenlandic. Very interesting. Qsgreenland made me curious and interested

[@TheLaxOne]

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!

[@fun_gamer196]

its been 1 year, and im still waiting for a second vid!!

[@DougalBayer]

Mind blown! My hobby is reading Japanese novels. Your explanation of the morphology continuum shows me exactly how agglutinating Japanese is “just right of center.” Conversational Japanese for beginners and tourists is like a mirror-image Spanish, synthetic with a short list of postpositions and verb tenses to learn. The first half of sentences can seem as analytic as English, when casual speakers drop those noun suffixes and rely on SOV word order. But in the written language and in nuanced speech, many sentences end with long words fully comparable to Greenlandic. It’s not unusual for the SO-V “verb” to take up most of a line of text, strung with up to a dozen suffixes for passive, potential, desire, mood, donation, agency, appearance, negation, politeness, tense, and finally speaker attitude (ne? yo! kana?) Language classes hardly teach this (semi) polysynthetic nature of Japanese. But it smacks you hard you when you dive into a novel and start deciphering these strings. Through extensive reading and shadowing of audiobooks “above my grade,” I have tripled my reading rate to about half that of native speakers. Not so much by recognizing more kanji-character vocabulary, as by developing an eye for parsing, at a glance, most of the high-frequency strings of up to a half a dozen affixes. You explanation of Greenlandic word formation suggests that memorizing Greenlandic vocabulary might be similar: learning the conventionalized meaning of various strings of multiple affixes.

[@GreenlandicGrammar]

Hi there, fellow Japanese language enthusiast! I think a great example of the agglutinative nature of Japanese is the suffix expressing desire 〜たい ’want to (do something)’ as in コーヒーを飲みたい (I want to drink coffee). In Greenlandic, this can be expressed by the suffix -rusup(poq) ‘would like to (do something)’ as in kaffi-so-rusup-pu-nga (I would like to drink coffee). Unlike in Japanese, however, the noun stem ‘kaffi’ in Greenlandic is incorporated into the verb itself. As for the strings of (words and) affixes, I think it makes sense to memorize high-frequency strings as separate chunks with a specific meaning. In Japanese, a good example would be the string 〜なければならない meaning ’must (do something)’. In Greenlandic, a relatively common combination of affixes is the dynamic passive +neqar(poq) ’is (done)’ and +tariaqar(poq) ’must (do something)’. It can be convenient to view +neqartariaqar(poq) as a single string meaning ’must be (done)’, for example in a word like ataqqi-neqartariaqar-poq (it must be respected).

[@jopeteus]

As a Finnish speaker, I found learning Japanese pretty straight forward because Japanese and Finnish are both agglutinative

[@jopeteus]

​@@GreenlandicGrammarIn Finnish (agglutinative language) we do something similar Kahvi = coffee Kahvituttaa = have a desire/need for coffee Kahvituttaako = do (you) have a need/desire foe coffee? -tuttaa is often put to end of nouns to show need or desire

[@GreenlandicGrammar]

​@@jopeteus ​That's a very nice example of derivation in Finnish! In English, there is no verb derived from 'coffee', but some languages have such a verb meaning 'to drink coffee'. Two examples include kohvitama in Estonian and кофейничать in Russian. Finnish takes it one step further, because kahvituttaa is actually derived from kahvittaa (which is derived from kahvi). The difference with Greenlandic is that these suffixes can't be used to incorporate any noun. For example, I think there are no verbs meaning 'to feel like wanting milk' or 'to feel like wanting water' in Finnish combining maito 'milk' or vesi 'water' with -tuttaa. Coffee is somewhat of an exception because we love it so much that we feel a need to have a separate verb for it :)

[@jopeteus]

@@GreenlandicGrammar But if someone said "maidotuttaa", people would still understand it. It just isn't as common

[@ivenotalent]

Please,post more. I did a challenge and now I'm finding Greenlandic resources.

[@G-ReX]

Please make more!!!!

[@sweetlikecinnamon5951]

Please add more videos!

[@gabmarquetto871]

Great video! Waiting eagerly for the next ones!

[@hisham_hm]

please keep going!!!

[@jockcox]

Would love to see more. Resources on Kalaallisut are so sparse.

[@chewbisque]

The best Kalaallisut sentence-word example I know of is this beauty: "nalunaarasuartaatilioqateeraliorfinnialikkersaatiginialikkersaatililaranatagoorunarsuarrooq" "apparently they tried once again to build a radio station but it is still only on the drawing board"

[@GreenlandicGrammar]

Seems like a nice topic for another video in the future :)

[@MikiLund]

Hard to read, some misspelling there.

[@埊]

and 谷歌 apparently translates it as 'reporting of the characteristics of the characteristics of the character'

[@TotallyAChannel]

@@GreenlandicGrammarwhen will it happen?

[@aronhellsten3372]

I got another one Nalunaarasuartaateeranngualioqatigiiffissualioriataallaqqissupilorujussuanngortuinnakasinngortinniamisaalinnguatsiaraluallaqqooqigaminngamiaasiinngooq

[@JustLilGecko]

Oh my god THANK YOU, there is so little material on Greenlandic out there!

[@loumof439]

Wauw, je bent zo getalenteerd. Goed video, man.

[@valentinaaugustina]

wat doet een nederlander hier!

[@埊]

@@valentinaaugustina 什么是中国人在哪里？

[@angunn1055]

Uuuu, saya tidak bisa menghindari menonton film penjelasan yang sangat bagus yang Anda buat, saya menyukainya❤

[@giannisttakka2780]

Thank you, for the amazing video. Keep going! I would love to learn more about greenlandic language.

[@vatnidd]

Subscribed and looking forward to more videos! Qujanarsuaq!

[@askadia]

Brilliant start! The video is informative and fun, but not pedantic. As the video was over, I've instantly subscribed, and ready to sail northward into this linguistic journey!

[@eduardo-ur4nj]

AMAZING PLEASE DO MORE

[@quadratic4919]

please make another one

[@Mansurabdelfattah]

Pls upload more videos im in love with this language!! ❤

[@alexandregb566]

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_]

this is what the second video will be about, no?

[@nirutivan9811]

I know it has been over a year, but I hope the other promised parts will come some day. Really well made and interesting!

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

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

[@HeriJoensen]

Excellent content! I've been looking for in-depth content on Greenlandic for some time.

[@gabmalagonpersonal]

Please update the series

[@Seiabras]

WOW, insane video, please come back to us :,( (I want to learn more about kalaallisut)

[@male6561]

Please make more!

[@varjovirta3085]

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]

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').

[@erebasu]

Please Come Back.... I Beg ,,🙂

[@katarina4tiaotiao]

zeer bedankt voor de video en ik ben benieuwd naar de volgende

[@yipperson2974]

please uploas another

[@goobs..]

I really like this video, I can’t wait for the next ones! 🙏

[@renatofigueiredo603]

excellent.

[@pablovaz275]

such a great video. keep it up the good work!

[@ChristianJiang]

I need moreeee!!!!

[@Schockmetamorphose]

Make part 2 now! :< :)

[@TheGribblesnitch]

Nah bro this was way too cool to leave for ten months come on man :(

[@sjorsmaurix2640]

Have you studied at Leiden University? Since you used Ayacucho as an example and i suspect i hear a dutch accent

[@jonasbrown1]

we're still waiting for part two

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Where are the other videos? We were promised a series 😁

[@averymaple]

Super interesting introduction :)

[@RcsN505]

Wouldn't 'oqaq' be a nominalised form of the verb oqar-?

[@brianfencker5161]

Tassa oqaatsivut!

[@Ikkaveelsiin]

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]

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]

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.

[@CasperF1RE]

Geluid klinkt ook goed

[@HUMANETARIAN]

Can someone please translate these words for me. akimik piffissaq tamanna qinnuteqarninni manna tikillugu aningaasaliissutiginikuuat ilisivugut. +? immannguaq paasisimasanik Kalaallisutimillu oqalulluni piginnaasanit qaffasissutsinni tunisinnaavisigut?

[@埊]

'We know that they have contributed so far to this period of application' 'Can you share your knowledge and skills in Kalaallisut?'

[@TYMCCK]

3:33 i like ball game too

[@CasperF1RE]

Woah mooie animaties ook

[@GreenlandicGrammar]

Dank u dank u :)

[@christopherellis2663]

Tusáŋìtsúsártuánàrsinâŋìvipùtit. Qajaq, kayak

[@埊]

arsarneritmiut ktuun altashigwaartut migegtuun.

[@vackrakristaller]

is somebody swedish? :p

[@kakumee]

Bro just called me out in Kalaallisut and English 😂

[@javifontalva7752]

Are you still alive?

[@violet_broregarde]

Why are these huge lists of morphemes considered to be parts of the same word, rather than different words? It seems like the best argument is that they cut off final consonants to prevent consonant clusters but I'm pretty sure French does something similar.

[@hưngđình-j6r]

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