About the Inuit language(s): Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Inuvialiktun

Following a tradition to explore northern languages in December (last year I made a video on Sami), today we're traveling to the Arctic Circle. We're going to explore Inuit - a language (or a language family or a dialect continuum) that is spoken in some of the most extreme corners of our planet - Greenland, Northern Canada, and Northern Alaska. Besides, it has had quite a different destiny in these three countries.

Videos used:
I speak Greenlandic in this episode! - [English Subtitles]
Barbara Inuktitut English Subs
IÑUPIAQ VERSION: HARD BOTTOM MUKLUK WORKSHOP

#inuktitut #greenlandic #inupiaq

[camrendavis]

Good on Denmark for allowing the Greenlanders to keep speaking their language to the point where nearly everyone still speaks it. You seldom see that nowadays

[guillervz]

I've always been fascinated by that region. As a kid I would spend hours looking at maps and looking for the most distant lands. I still do, actually, after three decades.
This was a great video :)

[elizabethelias]

If anyone wants to hear this language spoken for 3 hours, watch "The Fast Runner". It's the first movie filmed entirely in the Inuit language. I believe it was filmed in Canada. Good movie. I saw it about 20 years ago in the theaters when it was released.

[JohnLeePettimoreIII]

fluent speakers of my tribe's language (Chikashaanompa) is down to about 450 and they're all over 55 years old. although, i am quite thankful that the tribe has recently begun a language revitalization project.

you may be interested in looking into more information about the Chickasaw/Chikasha language.

[shaninnmarie]

I have a lifelong friend who is an Eskimo born, raised, and still living in Barrow, Alaska. She taught me how to sing "You Are My Sunshine" in Eskimo. If the term Eskimo isn't correct, I apologize. However, she is the one who said she was an Eskimo and that her language was Eskimo. Language in general fascinates me, but the languages of indigenous peoples

[magellanicspaceclouds]

The less-known, mysterious languages from remote places with few speakers are my favorite by far. More like this please!

[angycucumber]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the effort she puts among us

[Jetjetson]

👋 Aingai! qanuippit? ii. 🙏 Nakurmiik. thank you for all your work helping us to understand each other. aqaluq❤ inuktitut is a language close to my heart. konig 😘

[jjhantsch]

I met a native Alaskan National Guardsman who'd been to Thule Air Base, (Qaanaaq Mitarfik, in Inuit.) He was able to speak with the locals with no difficulty.

[ChrisMontgomery-xtrmagamr]

I spent time with an Inuit family in the Canadian arctic when i was a young teen, Very nice to see you cover a very friendly gracious people.

[miles_quartz]

These languages are so beautiful, I don't want them to go extinct. :( We need to establish language centers to keep the mother tongue of Indigenous people alive and allow them to thrive. <3 all of my love to Indigenous people all around the world

[yialoussa]

If you take a flight from Ottawa to Iqaluit then pre-flight instructions are given are Inuktitut . I recorded this on my flight there. Inuktitut is an official language of Nunavut. "The Inuit Language Protection Act states that the government must take positive action to promote the use of Inuktitut in all sectors of Nunavut society" All museum exhibits are trilingual (Inuktitut, English, French). By the way, a peculiarity of Inuit culture - there are six seasons not our typical four.

[cuckoo]

Just yesterday I was thinking, I miss Julie's videos lol and this one is precisely about one of my favorite languages 😁

[rvat]

Btw most linguists do not consider Yukaghir to be a part of Uralic.
There was also a small typo where you switched <e> with <u> as the Inuit vowels.

[FlipTekk]

I'm from Czech Republic. The country that never expected Inuit. We only got classes in a elementary school about Inuit. Culture and language is something fascinating to me. This culture has so many secrets to be told to whole world! I totally admire Eskimo culture ❤

[buarath]

It'd be nice if you made a video on any language of the Italian peninsula (obviously not Italian), since they are languages ​​that are almost never observed and are improperly recognized as dialects of Italian. I study and speak a little Venetian, which is a Gallo-Italic language of the historical region of Venetia, if you want information for a possible video just ask! ;)

[Arlaat]

Finally watched you vid, been seeing it on my recommended page. Great video, greeting from Kalaallit Nunaat 👋

[christopherantonio]

This was very informative in terms of the history and the linguistics. I hope the Inuk people continue to thrive

[gamermapper]

I think it's also very important to note that Inuit people and Inuit languages are also related to other indigenous Arctic people of North America. Inuit langauges are very close to Yupik and Aleut languages, together with whom they create the Eskimo-Aleut group. Those communities are also very interesting by itself, especially since the Yupik still exist not only in North America, but also in the far Eastern portion of Siberia.

[NelsonDiscovery]

Hey Julie. Nice to see you're back to the tube.