#yugtun

[willowbilly]

Math in a Cultural Context [link] is a really cool resource based on three decades of research and collaboration between Yup'ik Elders, teachers, and academics, educators, mathematicians, Alaskan school districts, and others. Along with free elementary school learning modules, there are free bilingual storybooks such as Akaguagaankaa: The Story of a Giant (Yugpak Quliraq) [link] by the late Al'aq Mary M. George, which is a traditional story illustrated with storyknife symbols!

[crazyheronman]

@frankiefridayyy these videos are pretty good for learning the alphabet :)

[nonenglishsongs]

Ukila - Qanaaqa Usviinak (Alaskan Yup'ik)

[willowbilly]

“Inuit” is a plural noun! One need not add the English plural morpheme -s to it because it already has the Inuktut plural morpheme -it! The singular form is actually “Inuk.” A common Canadian and Greenlandic dual form is “Inuuk.” 

There are grammatical dual as well as singular and plural nouns and pronouns in most of the Inuit-Yuit-Unangan languages, excluding Sireniki Yupik†, Kalaallisut, and Tunumiisut; Unangam Tunuu also used the dual more often prior to the 1950s. 

In northern Iñupiatun, one person is an iñuk; two people are iññuk; three or more are iñuich. In Yugtun: yuk; yuuk; yuit. In Eastern Unangam Tunuu: anĝaĝix̂, anĝaĝix, anĝaĝin. A possible Unangax̂ language cognate of iñuk, inuk, yuk, cuk, cug, suk, and yuuk is suganĝix̂ “young person.” 

As for three examples of Alaskan ethnonyms in the singular, dual, and plural:— 

Siḷaliñiġmiutun and Malimiutun: singular Iñupiaq; dual Iñupiak; plural Iñupiat. 

Northern Central Alaskan Yugtun: singular Yup’ik; dual Yupiik; plural Yupiit. 

Unangam Tunuu: singular Unangax̂; dual Unangax; plural Unangan or Unangas (Attu†).

[nonenglishsongs]

John Angaiak - Piukuvet (Alaskan Yup'ik)