Book Description

"Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuni ""it/Inupiaq to English Dictionary, "with approximately 19,000 entries (word stems, suffixes, and endings) and thirty-one appendices, is a rich cultural and linguistic resource of the Inupiaq language, the ancestral language of approximately five thousand Inupiat who live in eight villages on the North Slope of Alaska. Inupiaq word stems, suffixes, and endings can combine to form thousands of combinations, and each entry has an English translation. Many entries contain a verbal illustration in Inupiaq also translated into English. Every entry contains a morpheme by morpheme analysis. Of the dictionary s thirty-one appendices, twenty-four contain lists of terms from different categories, including: kin terms, ice and snow terms, temporal terms, names of constellations, ocean currents, and winds, area references, spatial terms, an explanation of the Inupiat counting system (also a list of cardinal and ordinal numbers), Inupiaq personal names, names of plants and animals (including mammals, insects, birds, fish, molluscs, and crustaceans), a list of exclamations, and names of the seasons/months. The other seven appendices are illustrations of an umiak, a kayak, a bowhead whale, a human skull, a human skeleton, and a traditional sod house. The various parts of each item are identified and named. "