One difficulty with Inuktitut is that it tends to do with morphology what English does with syntax, so the words can look rather overwhelming and it can be difficult to recognise the bits you know. (The fact that many suffixes delete the final consonant of the chunk in front of them doesn't help: you can't even recognise, say, a -tuq- chunk since it could look like -tu- depending on what's following.)
And I think I'd like to learn North Baffin and/or Igloolik speech; I like the fact that it's phonologically a bit more conservative than South Baffin / Iqaluit speech, and appreciate the fact that the two are otherwise fairly close, so if I should ever get there, things should be easier than if I had learned something more distant (such as Nunavik, Labrador, Natsilingmiut, Inuvialuktun, or whatever, let alone Inupiaq or Greenlandic).
Now I shall have to bookmark this entry so I'll find the links you gave me again more easily later.
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Children's books are probably particularly good.
One difficulty with Inuktitut is that it tends to do with morphology what English does with syntax, so the words can look rather overwhelming and it can be difficult to recognise the bits you know. (The fact that many suffixes delete the final consonant of the chunk in front of them doesn't help: you can't even recognise, say, a -tuq- chunk since it could look like -tu- depending on what's following.)
And I think I'd like to learn North Baffin and/or Igloolik speech; I like the fact that it's phonologically a bit more conservative than South Baffin / Iqaluit speech, and appreciate the fact that the two are otherwise fairly close, so if I should ever get there, things should be easier than if I had learned something more distant (such as Nunavik, Labrador, Natsilingmiut, Inuvialuktun, or whatever, let alone Inupiaq or Greenlandic).
Now I shall have to bookmark this entry so I'll find the links you gave me again more easily later.