Feb 11, 2016 00:16
Hey guys! I found out that Greenlandic is actually just a dialect of the native Canadian languages and aside from specific vocabulary and veeeery slight spelling differences, their main grammar is so far exactly the same. I really couldn't find any info about Greenlandic before, but the wiki page on the language group as a whole is pretty readable for me, and I found some old books on it all too, so I think I'll be able to figure out the grammar and write some lessons for it.
I won't work on it right now (okay, I did start a little but I can't allow myself to focus on it), but it should happen sometime... I'm pretty excited because up until now I thought Greenlandic was unlearnable unless you actually lived in Greenland or Denmark, due to lack of lessons.
From what I've seen so far the grammar isn't actually difficult at all, it's just attaching words to the end (that are, so far, very regular I might add - much moreso than Icelandic's grammar anyway) and then otherwise it works just like Indonesian, where the words aren't really nouns or verbs, they don't contain a tense and they're actually not any set form in speech (word order and whatever you've attached to the end decides that).
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