u/Mielug_ailevent

Translation in inuktitut

**Answered already! Thanks! ** Hi! I'm working on some kind of multilingual poetry book (there are a few scattered sentences in various languages). I would like to translate "No road leads here" in inuktitut, if possible using only one word with affixes because long words sound structurally poetic to me. (The full poem is about writing, identity crisis, it's just one small bit of the poem). Google gives me "Aqqutitaqanngilaq tamaani" but I don't really trust google and prefer to ask someone from the community. I know the translation might differ based on the dialect. I hope this translation request is ok, please pardon me if I'm not asking the right way.

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u/Mielug_ailevent — 14 days ago

Gap in affixes inventories accross inuit languages

https://mofo.oqa.dk has around a thousand entries for kalallisut affixes! Are they all distinct postbases? I just consulted the official Nunavut dictionary of affixes, and they have only 190 entries in total. I'm aware they must have left some rarer postbases out, but would you say kalallisut has so many more composition tools than inuktitut and other inuit languages? There is also the 738 pages dictionary of utkuhisalik postbases (I can’t access online)... Which inuit language is the most postbase-rich and word-compositionaly proficient? Why such a gap in data? (Please do not just ask AI, it’s pulling numbers from nowhere, that’s why I ask here.)

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u/Mielug_ailevent — 29 days ago