Talk:Iñupiaq language

message: The language is far more frequently referred to as "Inupiaq" than "Inupiat" --Naulagmi (talk) 00:18, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Move to Inupiaq language

message: On University of Alaska Fairbanks there is a note that the athletic teams (named the Nanooks) derive this name from an Inupiaq word used for polar bear. Can anyone here help determine what the origin of this (English) word is and what it actually means? or at least rule out Inupiaq as the etymological source? The suggested etymology was nanuq. Deirdre 00:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Inupiaq word for polar bear is indeed nanuq, so the note on the site is correct (and why shouldn't it?). — N-true 20:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The word is the same in other related languages where polar bears also live. I thought it was Canadian myself. However, stritcly speaking it is still correct to say it is from Inupiaq.  and that was what we decided on Alaska Nanooks as well.—Soap— 20:02, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: help needed re origin of English word "nanook"

message: Inupiaq (Alaskan Inuit) is not Inuktitut (Canadian Inuit) --Kmoksy (talk) 21:17, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inupiaq is not Inuktitut

message: It's good to see the IPA transcription for the Roman script used. However, it would be useful to have the symbols filled in a standard IPA chart so as to match their place and mode of articulation.
Also, the vowels are not well explained, nor the use of stress in the language, and what about double consonants/vowels: do they have to do with stress, timing, geminate pronunciation, etc? Can "ch" or "sr" as digraphs also be doubled (chch or srsr)???
EDIT: I just noticed on the Inupiak version of the page [f] is mentioned...is this an alophone of /v/ or which sound? dialectal?
- It is an allophone of /v/ --Naulagmi (talk) 07:16, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: IPA for the language

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message: The current article text holds the following passage: "The Bering strait dialect has a forth vowel /e/, which preserves the fourth proto-Eskimo vowel reconstructed as */ə/.  In the other dialects, proto-Eskimo */e/ has merged with the closed front vowel /i/. The merged /i/ is referred to as the “strong /i/”, which causes palatalization when preceding consonant clusters in the North Slope dialect (see section on palatalization below). The other /i/ is referred to as “the weak /i/”."
* To me it is not clear whether the author intended "the merged /i/" to refer to "proto-Eskimo */ə/" or to (original) /i/.
Based solely on the wording of the text, I would guess that the merged /i/ originated in */ə/. If that were true, palatalization would then be associated with original */ə/, if my understanding of the subsequent text is correct. But as an avid reader of texts in linguistics and phonetics, I have come to think that palatalization is more likely to occur wit /i/ than with /ə/. Am I wrong here?
* To me it is not clear whether the author wishes to mention two different "e"-like vowels of Proto-Eskimo.
Based on the wording, I would guess the answer is no. But based on the symbols employed, i.e. both /ə/ and /e/, I would say the answer is yes. Which of the two is it?
Which knowledgeable person can give the correct answer?Redav (talk) 00:26, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which /i/ is the strong one, and which is the weak one? And is */e/ meant to be */ə/?