Social:Netsilik dialect
| Natsilik | |
|---|---|
| Nattiliŋmiutut | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | North America |
| Ethnicity | Netsilik Inuit |
Eskimo–Aleut
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | nets1241[1] |
 Inuit dialects. (Broader) Netsilik is the dark green in the center. | |
Netsilik /ˌnɛtˈsɪlɪk/,[2] Natsilik,Nattilik, Netsilingmiut, Natsilingmiutut,[3] Nattilingmiutut,[4] Nattiliŋmiutut[5] is a dialect of Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuit or Inuktitut) language once spoken in the Nattilik area of Nunavut, Canada by Netsilik Inuit.
Natsilingmiut (ᓇᑦᓯᓕᖕᒥᐅᑦ "people from Natsilik") came from natsik “seal” + postbase -lik “place with something” + postbase -miut “inhabitants of”.
Classification
- There are three main dialect divisions of Natsilingmiutut dialect:[6]
- Natsilik subdialect, or Natsilik/Netsilik proper
- Arviligjuaq subdialect
- Utkuhiksalik subdialect
Special letters
Natsilik dialect has the special letters: š ř ŋ
These special characters are used by some Nattiliŋmiut speakers to document their dialect.[7]
š [ʂ] – sounds like ‘shr’ and is distinct from both the s sound that is used in words borrowed from English and the more common h sound.
- Uqšuqtuuq Gjoa Haven
- hikšik ground squirrel, marmot
- mikšaanut about
ř [ɟ] (in Inuktitut syllabics ᖬ řa ᖨ ři ᖪ řu ᖭ řaa ᖩ řii ᖫ řuu) – sounds like an English (retroflex) r. It is distinct from the r sound used by other dialects, which is closer to the r [ʁ] sound made in French at the back of the throat.
- ᐃᖨ iři eye (cf. Inuktitut ᐃᔨ iji)
- ᐅᒡᖪᒃ ugřuk bearded seal (cf. Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ ugjuq)
- ᑭᐅᖪᖅ kiuřuq s/he replies, answers (cf. Inuktitut ᑭᐅᔪᖅ kiujuq)
- ᐊᐱᕆᖪᖅ apiriřuq s/he asks (cf. Inuktitut ᐊᐱᕆᔪᖅ apirijuq)
ŋ – A small number of Inuktitut speakers use this character instead of ng. The use of ng is deceiving because it makes use of two letters to represent what is actually a single sound. In syllabics this sound is represented by a single character ᖕ.
Using this letter also makes the distinction between the sequence [nŋ] and long [ŋː] clearer, the first being spelled ‘nŋ’ and the latter ‘ŋŋ’. In eastern varieties of Inuktitut which do not have the sequence [nŋ], long [ŋː] is spelled ‘nng’ rather than ‘ngng’.
When the letter ‘ŋ’ is not used, the distinction may be made by spelling [nŋ] ‘n'ng’ and [ŋː] ‘nng’.
- avinŋuaq lemming
- kiŋŋaq mountain
Comparison
| Inuinnaqtun | Nattiliŋmiut | Kivallirmiut | Aggurmiut (North Baffin) |
Uqqurmiut (South Baffin) |
meaning |
| niriyuq | niriřuq | nirijuq | nirijuq | nirijuq | s/he eats |
| ihumayuq | ihumařuq | ihumajuq | isumajuq | isumajuq | s/he thinks |
| pingahut | piŋahut | pingahut | pingasut | pingasut | three |
| akhunaaq | akłunaaq | akłunaaq | akłunaaq | atsunaaq | rope |
| quana | qujanaqqutit | ma’na | qujannamiik | nakurmiik | thank you |
| imannaq | iiq | nauk | aakka | aagga | no |
| hiqiniq | hiqiniq | hiqiniq | siqiniq | siqiniq | sun |
| ublaaq | ublaaq | ublaaq | ullaaq | ullaaq | morning |
| qablu | qablu | qablu | qallu | qallu | eyebrow |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Netsilik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nets1241.
- ↑ Netsilik (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, September 2005, http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=Netsilik (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Preserving Inuit Dialects in Nunavut, January 2005
- ↑ Teacher devises special syllabics for Nattilingmiutut
- ↑ http://www.tusaalanga.ca
- ↑ "Iñuvialuktun/Inuvialuktun/Inuinnaqtun". languagegeek.com. http://www.languagegeek.com/inu/inuvialuktun.html. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
- ↑ Why does Nattiliŋmiut have special letters?
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