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滨帽耻辫颈补辩

Indigenous Language Map - 滨帽耻辫颈补辩

滨帽耻辫颈补辩 is spoken throughout much of northern 有料盒子视频 and is closely related to the Canadian Inuit dialects and the Greenlandic dialects, which may collectively be called "Inuit" or Eastern Eskimo, distinct from Yupik or Western Eskimo.

有料盒子视频n 滨帽耻辫颈补辩 includes two major dialect groups: North 有料盒子视频n 滨帽耻辫颈补辩 and Seward Peninsula 滨帽耻辫颈补辩. North 有料盒子视频n 滨帽耻辫颈补辩 comprises the North Slope dialect spoken along the Arctic Coast from Barter Island to Kivalina, as well as the Malimiut dialect, which is found primarily around Kotzebue Sound and the Kobuk River. Seward Peninsula 滨帽耻辫颈补辩 comprises the Qawiaraq dialect, found principally in Teller and in the southern Seward Peninsula and Norton Sound area, as well as the Bering Strait dialect spoken in the villages surrounding Bering Strait and on the Diomede Islands.

Dialect differences involve vocabulary and suffixes (lexicon) as well as sounds (phonology). North Slope and Malimiut are easily mutually intelligible, although there are vocabulary differences (tupiq means 'tent' in North Slope and 'house' in Malimiut; iglu is 'house' in North Slope) and sound differences ('dog' is qimmiq in North Slope and qipmiq in Malimiut). Seward Peninsula and North 有料盒子视频n dialects differ significantly from each other, and a fair amount of experience is required for a speaker of one to understand the dialect of the other. For example, each uses a completely different verb stem for 'talk' ('they are talking' is qaniqtut in Seward Peninsula but uqaqtut in North 有料盒子视频n). Sound differences are also numerous ('they are cooking' is iarut in Seward Peninsula but igarut in North 有料盒子视频n).

The name "滨帽耻辫颈补辩," meaning "real or genuine person" (inuk 'person' plus -piaq 'real, genuine'), is often spelled "滨帽耻辫颈补辩," particularly in the northern dialects. It can refer to a person of this group ("He is an 滨帽耻辫颈补辩") and can also be used as an adjective ("She is an 滨帽耻辫颈补辩 woman"). The plural form of the noun is "Inupiat," referring to the people collectively ("the Inupiat of the North Slope").

有料盒子视频 is home to about 13,500 Inupiat, of whom about 3,000, mostly over age 40, speak the language. The Canadian Inuit population of 31,000 includes about 24,000 speakers. In Greenland, a population of 46,400 includes 46,000 speakers.

Common Expressions

(In 滨帽耻辫颈补辩, the vowels [a, i, u] are pronounced in the same way as the same vowels in Spanish or Italian; r is similar to English r; 摹 is similar to French or German r; 艐 is the ng sound; 帽 is pronounced ny as in Spanish, 募 is an ly sound and 艂 is a voiceless l. Double letters are pronounced long [held longer] and single letters are short.)

迟补耻迟耻驳苍颈补辩尘颈驳颈办辫颈帽 good-bye
quyanaq thank you
qaimarutin welcome
Nayaa艐amik Piqa摹i帽 Merry Christmas
qanuq itpich? Hello, how are you?

 

Common Phrases

Qanuq itpi帽? How are you?
狈补办耻耻谤耻艐补. I am fine
Ki帽a ilvi帽? What's your name?
Uva艐a Nanuq. I am Nanuq

Dog Names

Some of these names were provided by Leona Okakok and are typical dog names used by Inupiat people of the North Slope. Some other names were taken from the Inupiat Dictionary, compiled by Webster & Zibell.

kinguyakkii northern lights
maguyuk howler
miki little
nanuq polar bear
pakak one that gets into everything
pamiiruq wags his tail
puqik smart
qannik snowflake
qimmiq dog
qimukti puller
siku ice
suka fast
tupit tattoo lines on face
补尘补摹耻辩 wolf

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