What if the most fascinating language of the Americas were also one of the most logical?
Inuktitut builds its sentences the way you assemble a sled: a root, a few affixes, and one word that says everything. Computer? "That which resembles a brain." Internet? "That which travels through the layers of the world." A language like a poem, spoken by nearly 40,000 people - the most vigorous of Canada's Indigenous languages.
This volume gives you all the foundations you need to aim for B1:
- 8 progressive levels, 16 dialogues and 8 graded serial readings
- 2,000 words sorted by theme, the essential kept apart from the treasure
- 100 affixes, the complete syllabary and a method for reading it
- the 50 essential verbs and every connector you need at B1
- the full table of endings, including the dual
- and the collection's honesty page: what this book can do, and what no book can ever promise
Reference dialect: South Qikiqtaaluk (Iqaluit), with North Qikiqtaaluk and Inuinnaqtun sidebars. Every word appears in both scripts - Latin alphabet and qaniujaaqpait syllabics - with pronunciation cued for English speakers.
Nakurmiik - and welcome to the land.