Hi!
Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> writes:
>...
> Just so happens I'm looking for stuff on Inuit languages.
Me, too. :-)
> Not much online,
> but I did find some RealPlayer-format news from CBC in Inuktitut (the kind
> they speak in Nunavut).
Do you have a link? I'm very interested in it.
> I can't find a decent description of Greenlandic
> (Kalaallisut) phonology/orthography, but I'm sure it's not much different
> than Canadian or Alaskan.
I have a short piece of .wav from a Greenlandic film. You can hear a phone
call in it. I put it on my homepage:
http://www.theiling.de/sprache02.mp3
Further, I bought a nice book recently. It contains concise grammar
and phonology descriptions:
Title: A Grammar of Kalaallisut: (West Greenlandic Inuttut)
Written By: Jerrold M Sadock (University of Chicago)
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 162
Year: 2003
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
Linguistic Field(s): Language Description
Subject Language(s): Inuktitut, Greenlandic
Lincom is here:
http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/
A striking difference between Kalaallisut and other Inuit languages is
that the 'typical' -kt- and -qt- clusters to not exist: they collapse
into geminate -tt-, thus 'Inuktitut' is not a phonologically correct
word in Kalaallisut.
> Since I want Tech to be highly inflected and polysynthetic,
The above book claims that Kalaallisut has the longest morpheme chains
of the Inuit-Aleut family. :-)
I'm very interested in Tech! I'd like to compare it with S7 (which is
still heavily work in progress).
**Henrik