Useful words in Greenlandic. Tuesday 32 of 52.

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I don't speak Welsh but I do hear it sometimes (I don't live too far away from Wales) and the double L sound is very similar (to my poor ears anyway!) I love seeing these types of connections (linguistic echos?!) around the world - it reminds me how of close we all are. Thank you 😊

paulnewman

You are so loved all over the world! Thank you for sharing your amazing culture with us!

appstateboi

I love that you not only spelled, and pronounced the word… the syllables help a great deal as well as repeating it ❤️

tiaspoores

Hello from South Africa! Just came across your page ❤ and very proud to say that I found it easy to pronounce “Illillu” because of similar phonetics in some of our indigenous languages in South Africa, like isiZulu and isiXhosa. Thank you for educating the world about Greenland culture!

sankaragibbs

Learning different languages is such a beautiful experience! Thank you for sharing, Q! Sending love from the heart of NYC. 🗽❤️

wcrucetaify

I think I’m watching your videos too often. Just now my son said “ life is amazing..”, and it caught me off guard 😂

rungiee

Your videos never fail to pull me out of a depression spiral when they come up. Thank you for teaching us all about your beautiful culture. Greenland is now at the top of my list of destinations

pedros

Every video I see of yours makes me want to immigrate to Greenland more and more. My wife and I are in the southern United States and we hate the heat, we plan to leave the south for the cold eventually especially once our adoption is final for our son we are expecting and the way this country is going I’m constantly saying we need to leave this entire country all together and you’ve made Greenland one of my top picks to visit and see and even move to. 💚

brittneybyrd

*here's my tips for how to make the greenlandic LL-sound*

– if you can't make the sound right away, that's normal. your mouth is a muscle, and you have to train it to make certain sounds. it takes kids years to learn to speak their OWN native language and work out their muscles, so it likely won’t happen for you overnight (so don’t worry if you dont get it right on your first try)

– my little “cheat code” for the LL-sound is to say the words “atlantic” and “clan”. in english, when we speak quickly, occassionally our mouths will “slip up” and say it like a LL by accident, even just for a split second

*– but, to actually learn how to say it: (since i can’t draw a diagram in youtube comments, i’m gonna try and walk through it just by using words, so bear with me)*

1. for starters, take the letters T and N. if you say “tatatata” and “nananana”, notice how your tongue is in the same position for both. the main difference is that, for N, you touch the top of your mouth, but the sound is coming out of your nose. and for T, instead of the air coming out of your nose, it comes out of your mouth.
(that’s why, if people are sick and their nose is stuffed, their Ns come out sounding like Ds or Ts – the air doesn’t come out of the nose correctly)

2. now, take the letters T and S. with “tatatata”, once again, you touch the top of your mouth, and then it’s like a puff of air coming out the tip of your tongue. for “sasasasa”, your tongue is in the same spot again! but this time, it never _fully_ touches the top of your mouth. rather, when you say the letter S, your tongue gets super, _super_ close to the “T”-position. but, then, it pushes out a lot of air through that tiny gap (making a hissing sound).

so, the T makes a puff of air right where the the tip of the tongue and the roof of the mouth meet. but S pushes air through the tiny gap between the tip of the tongue and the roof of the mouth

3. now, take the letter R. this one is a bit tricky to use as an example, cause basically every english accent pronounces it differently. it’s also tricky because the english R is actually two sounds combined: you make an R with your tongue, but a W with your mouth. that’s why kids tend to replace Rs with Ws when they’re first learning how to speak (like sowwy instead of sorry). and that’s also why we’re able to understand a toddler saying “sowwy” - because they’re half-way correct

but anyway, just focus on what your tongue is doing, an ignore your lips for a moment. take the letters S and R. with “sasasasa”, you’re making a narrow gap with the tip of your tongue and pushing air through it. but with “rararara”, your tongue doesn’t go all the way up. it goes to _approximately_ the same position as an S, and then (for lack of a better way of describing it) “gives up”. you move your tongue approximately towards an S position, your vocal chords make a noise, and then your tongue goes back down.

this is your difference between a hissing letter (a “fricative” – think “friction”) and an approximant (think “approximately”). so, S is a fricative, because you’re pushing air through a narrow gap between the _tongue_ and the _roof of the mouth_ . and R is an approximant, cause the gap you create between your tongue and the top of your mouth _isn’t quite narrow enough_ (it’s too wide) to make a loud “hiss”.

4. here’s where we get to the english L sound, and the greenlandic LL-sound (finally, haha)
in english, the L sound (once again) is, like T, N, S, R, [etc.], made with the tongue yet again in the same position. if you say “tatatata” and “lalalala”, your tongue is in the same spot. with T, the air comes out of the tip of your tongue, BUT with L, the air comes out of the _sides_ of your tongue. try to really say your Ts and Ls slowly, so you feel the difference between air coming out the tip of the tongue, versus the sides of the tongue

but, in english, an L is an approximant (like R). why? because even though you’re pushing air out the sides of your tongue, the passage isn’t narrow enough to make a hissing sound. you’re also not pushing a lot of air, so your L is too “soft” to make a hiss. (again, think of the difference between an R and an S).

on the other hand, the greenlanic LL-sound is LIKE an english L, but instead of being an approximant, it’s a _fricative_ . so, the air is pushed through narrow gaps in the side of the tongue, making a hissing sound.

so, to go from an R to an S, you have to raise your tongue, tense up your tongue, and then push out a lot of air, to make a “hissing” sound. on the other hand, to go from an L to a LL-sound, you have to start with an L, tense up your tongue, and (more so than a normal L) push a _ton_ of air through the _sides of the tongue_ (not the tip)

!! that’s also why we tend to accidentally say the LL sound when we say words like “aTLantic” and “CLan” quickly – the “puff of air” from T and K gets “transferred over” to our L sound -> hence accidentally making the L sound “hissier” than normal

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if you didn’t get it right away, no worries – the mouth is a muscle, and you have to train it, you can’t just lift the heaviest weight on day one. and if my explanation made no sense, no worries either – there’s a ton of resources on how to say the LL-sound, _especially_ if you look at welsh-language teachers (they have that sound as well in the welsh language)

pollinationtechnician

Thank you so much! Greenland seems like a beautiful place.

w.irvingrailfan

So I speak Danish because my dad was from Denmark. I do love learning about Greenland and how you say things!

niamarieturek

Someday, hopefully, I will get to visit Greenland. Taking notes on useful words and phrases thanks to your channel.
❤✌️ from California

silkenaria

This is SO interesting! The double ll sound is exactly how we say it in Welsh. 🤯 So many non-Welsh speakers have a problem with the ll sound. Language is amazing - thank you for sharing! Diolch yn fawr, qujanaq. :)

tinker