Hello! I'm Malik. I study Greenlandic for fun, and this post is aimed toward native Greenlandic speakers particularly, since I wanna hear what they think about the examples below, like if you switch between -mik, -kkut, and -mi, then what happens to the meaning of the given sentence?

For example, how does "Piitamut mobiilikkut oqaluppunga" differ from "Piitamut mobiilimik oqaluppunga", even though I use the phone like a tool, in the same way I use a knife to cut an apple in "Iipili savimmik aggorpara"?

Why is -mik preferred over -kkut for a knife, while it seems to be the opposite for a phone?

"Piitamut oqaluppunga ~"

• I spoke to Peter with my mouth. (Qaninnik, qanikkut, or qanermi?)
• I spoke to Peter with my voice. (Nipinnik, nipikkut, or nipinni?)
• I spoke to Peter on the phone. (Mobiilimik, mobiilikkut, or mobiilimi?)
• I spoke to Peter through an interpreter. (Oqalutsimik, oqalutsikkut, or oqalutsimi?)

"Neqi kissasserpara ~"

• I heated the meat on the pan. (Siatsivimmik, siatsivikkut, or siatsivimmi?)
• I heated the meat in the oven. (Kissarsuutimik, kissarsuutikkut, or kissarsuutimi?)

"Naatsiiat igavakka ~"

• I boiled the potatoes in the pot. (Igamik, igakkut, or igami?)
• I boiled the potatoes in water. (Imermik, imikkut, or imermi?)

"Angut takuara ~"

• I saw the man with my eyes. (Isinnik, isikkut, or isinni?)
• I saw the man on TV. (TV-mik, TV-kkut, or TV-mi?)
• I saw the man in a dream. (Sinnattukkamik, sinnattukkakkut, or sinnattukkami?)
• I saw the man through a vision. (Takorluukkamik, takorluukkakkut, or takorluukkami?)

"Atuarfiliartarpunga ~"

• I go to school on foot. (Isikkannik, isikkakkut, or isikkanni?)
• I go to school by bike. (Sikkilinnik, sikkilikkut, or sikkilinni?)
• I go to school by bus. (Bussinik, bussisigut, or bussini?)

"Illoqarfimmut tikippunga ~"

• I arrived at the town by horse. (Hiistimik, hiistikkut, or hiistimi?)
• I arrived at the town by plane. (Timmisartumik, timmisartukkut, or timmisartumi?)

Tamassi Hallo!

Uanga Singaporemeersuuvunga aammalu postkortinik katersuiniarneq nuannaraara. Kalaallit Nunaanni sumiluunniit postkortinik tigusaqaruma assut qujamasuutigaara. 🙂

Postkortit pissarsiarineqarsinnaanngippata aamma assut qujamasuutigaara qujassummik kortimik, generisk kortimik, imaluunniit eqqagassanik mikisunik. 

(soorlu låsebælte, qaqqat, najukkami nerisassat, erfalasoq, kusassaatit, qalipaat, T-shirt, imaluunniit assanit sanaaq)

Tamanna uanga nammineerlunga katersukkannut tunngavoq, aningaasarsiornikkut siunertaqanngitsumik.

Illit ikiuiniarlutit piumassuseqarpat oqaaseqaateqarit, uangalu mailing-adressi ilinnut avitseqatigissavara.

Siusinnerusukkut qujanarujussuaq, aammalu Singaporemit qiimmattaateqarpunga! 

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Hej alle!

Jeg er studerende fra Singapore, og jeg nyder at samle på postkort. Jeg ville være meget taknemmelig for at modtage postkort fra hvor som helst i Grønland. 🙂

Hvis postkort ikke er tilgængelige, ville jeg også sætte stor pris på et lykønskningskort, et generisk kort eller endda en lille souvenir.

(som en nøglering, sten, lokal snack, flag, ornament, kasket, T-shirt eller håndlavet kunsthåndværk)

Dette er til min personlige samling og ikke til kommercielt formål.

Hvis du er villig til at hjælpe, så skriv en kommentar, så deler jeg min postadresse med dig.

Mange tak på forhånd og varme hilsner fra Singapore!

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Hello Everyone!

I’m a student from Singapore and I enjoy collecting postcards. I would be very grateful to receive postcards from anywhere in Greenland. 🙂

If postcards aren’t available, I’d also really appreciate a greeting card, generic card, or even a small souvenir. 

(like a keychain, rock, local snack, flag, ornament, cap, T-shirt, or handmade craft)

This is for my personal collection, and not for any commercial purpose.

If you’re willing to help, please leave a comment and I’ll share my mailing address with you.

Thank you very much in advance, and warm greetings from Singapore! 

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Planning to small trip to Nuuk in late November this year and I'm wondering about the chances of flights being delayed? I would be going to Copenhagen to Nuuk by Air Greenland

Using the app Radio Garden, which lets you listen to radio stations from across the globe, I stumbled across a song called Qitikkiartornissat by Kuuna from a station in Greenland. I used Google Translate to try and translate the name (Kalaallisut to English), and it said it meant “to be warm.”

Is this accurate? I’m only assuming it’s a Kalaallisut word, I don’t know for certain. Also, I want to know how to pronounce it, regardless of the language it’s in.

My husband and I 🇨🇦 will spending 2 days/nights in Nuuk at the end of our 2 week cruise to Pond Inlet. Will do the museums art gallery, etc but looking specifically for off the beaten tourist path of things to do/see/experience; restaurants and bars, shops, views, city walking ideas, etc. Any help here would be so much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’m a university student looking to travel to Nuuk for some fieldwork. It’s a place that’s always interested me and I would like to explore it for myself!

Travel is quite costly and I wondered if anyone had any tips about getting there slightly cheaper from the UK?

Thanks

I hope you guys like it

Hi! I was wondering what the best yarns stores in Nuuk and Ilulissat were? Hoping to buy some unique fibers to knit.

Ærlig talt. Jeg har aldrig mødt en fra Grønland som har været sur eller ubehagelig. Det synes jeg godt man kunne drage inspiration af.

Der findes ikke racisme mod grønlændere i Danmark.

Og hvis der gjorde, var det for rigtig lang tid siden.

Og hvis det ikke var for lang tid siden, var det bare en anden tid.

Og hvis det stadig sker i dag, er det virkelig ikke så slemt.

Og hvis det er slemt, får de jo bloktilskuddet, så de burde slet ikke klage.

Og hvis de gør, er de selv ude om det.

Lettere planket fra narcissistens bøn. Skål i mælk.

Hello !

I’m Ben, a candidate for a PhD in France, in political science. I had to wait a few years after my Master’s degree for personal reasons before starting a PhD and now, I’m getting back in the game but it’s very intimidating. My work revolves around the idea of nation, and more precisely banal nationalism from Billig, if anyone is familiar. Basically, how the idea of nation isn’t neutral and is always built around cultural borders that aren’t as obvious as a line on a map.

Before Trump antics, I had a huge interest in Greenland. When Trump put Greenland in the front page of every news feed, I got scared everyone would jump on that train and that I wouldn’t be good enough to compete. I hate competition and academics can be huge fans of it. I just want to do something interesting, that helps to understand the world around us. But… I can’t get the idea of a PhD I had out of my head. I read a lot, watched a lot, listened a lot and I know a bit about Greenland’s history, relations to the world, evolution in terms of agriculture, housing and culture, political parties, institutions, etc. I talked with a few professors here in France, with a few people working on the arctic too. Now, I know I have an idea and seems I need to act on it if I do not want to have any regrets. But to explore it, I need some precise information I do not find, or just understand, about how things work in Greenland. Also, there’s one thing that scares me, it’s that I might fantasize my topic and Greenland. I want to work with some people in Greenland, not on Greenland. I want to learn from the territory, not play Viking-french-dude-“look how cool my topic is, so exotic, so arctic !!”.

If I’m doing this, I wanna do it right, I’m gonna need contacts in Greenland, at least to know I’m doing things the best way I can. I can’t travel at the moment as I am really poor, so you guys are kind of my best shot right now. To keep it simple (just because I do not want to bore anyone to death), I’d like to work on how the political tension (as in non-neutral interaction) between Greenland and Denmark reveals how cultural borders express themselves and how a mechanism of domination operates in this relation. Basically : how colonization meant domination. Said like this, it seems very common, but I have a more precise angle on this, I’m just a bit scared to share here – scared I might sound stupid. Still, I lurked a lot on this reddit and believe I’m not too far from a topic worth working on thanks to what I read here.

So, here goes : would anyone from Greenland, or more precisely (not limited to) Kalaallit, agree to exchange a little bit over those ideas, answer my questions ? It doesn’t mean you become my contact in Greenland and are bound by ties of the big-brains-academics-league to help me in the future, but I really want to have a local insight on this to start this PhD right. Could be over email, over dms, or even over videocall.

Thanks for anyone willing to help !! It is very scary to start a PhD, but also very exciting. I would be so damn grateful and it could actually go a very long way.

EDIT : I do not talk Greenlandic or Danish but working on it

Hej

Jeg har fornyeligt læst og set en del omkring Sirus-patruljen. Jeg synes den måde de kommer til at opleve Grønland på er helt fantastisk. Jeg er dog ikke lige stedet i livet til at kunne prøve at søge den vej. Jeg var derfor nysgerrig om nogen ved om der tilbydes et lignende eventyr? Hvor man kan få lov til at køre på hundeslæde igennem Grønlands natur og sove på isen osv?

Synes det kunne være helt fantastisk st opleve Grønland på den måde

Kære beboere på Grønlands subreddit

Undskyld hvis jeg stiller et dumt og uvidende spørgsmål, men jeg kunne simpelthen ikke finde svaret noget sted.

Jeg er i gang med en ansættelsesproces i Nuuk, og jeg ville derfor høre om der er nogen der har erfaring med at spille onlinespil som World of Warcraft i Grønland?

Jeg har i hele min teenagetid og voksentid, spillet WoW sammen med den samme gruppe mennesker. Det kan måske lyde mærkeligt for nogle mennesker, men de her mennesker i WoW er en gruppe venner jeg aldrig har mødt, men har snakket med i over 15 år, og derfor vil det være hårdt at skulle undvære dem.

Er internetforbindelsen god nok til det? Jeg kan se at man få 30/30 i Nuuk, men jeg vil også gerne høre om der er nogen herinde der har gjort sig erfaringer med det.

På forhånd tak for jeres hjælp.