Re: Cool present!

From: "Joe" <joe@...>

> >On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:06:41 +0000, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> >>I just got presented with a set of video tapes and a CD called 'Start
> >>learning Inuktitut'.  Considering I live in the southeast of England,
> >>this is distinctly unusual, and I'm very happy now.
> Aye, 'tis.  Of the kind spoken in Nunavut.  And Greenland(though that's
> a distinctly different kind of Inuktitut).
Greenlandic, Eastern Canadian, Western Canadian, North Alaskan and Northwest
Alaskan are the five dialects of Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit, the
so-called Eskimos of the Arctic. Also related are the five dialects (two
Alaskan, three Siberian) of Yupik, and Aleut; they make up the family known
as Eskimo-Aleut or Inuit-Aleut.

And I've LOVE to get my hands on your tapes, Joe... I mean, I'd love to
learn Inuktitut, since I'm interested in 1) its polysynthetic agglutinative
grammar, and 2) its *possible* (but difficult to ascertain) links to
Eurasian languages (if Nostratic is for real, it might be a distant member).
Plus it has a lot of uvular consonants.

I'm a little closer to the American Arctic, by the way, though Texas is
still far, far away.

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