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oapen-20.500.12657-349252021-11-12T16:31:46Z The Southernmost People of Greenland - Dialects and Memories (Vol. 337):Qavaat - Oqalunneri Eqqaamassaallu Mâliâraq Vebæk, 20th century language and linguistics fonologi grønland dialekt phonology sprog og lingvistik mythology greenland fortællinger 20. årh. grønlandsk greenlandic english mytologi narratives dialect engelsk bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics During the mid-20th century, old South Greenlanders still spoke their genuine dialects when Mâliâraq Vebæk, herself a South Greenlander, born 1917, collected on tape stories and descriptions of pre-modern daily life from 42 informants. In this volume, the texts appear in dialectal transcription and translated into English, as well as in sound on the inserted CD-Rom, containing the tape recordings. Among the South Greenlandic dialects, the southernmost from the Cape Farewell region, which is now extinct, attracts particular interest, because this area received emigrants from the gradually depopulated southeast coast during the 19th century. The so-called qavak-dialect of the Cape Farewell region thus became an interesting mixture of the southeast and southwest Greenlandic dialects. This publication is targetted at linguists and is the first and only presentation of the South Greenlandic dialects. A phonological introduction is offered for the benefit of the linguists, but any reader of English (or the dialects) interested in stories, Greenland etc. can fully enjoy the texts. 2010-06-16 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:29:43Z 2020-04-01T15:29:43Z 2006 book 342373 OCN: 1030814955 808383133 0106-1062 9788763512732 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34925 eng Monographs on Greenland | Meddelelser om Grønland application/pdf n/a 342373.pdf Museum Tusculanum Press 10.26530/OAPEN_342373 10.26530/OAPEN_342373 bf3aad86-19af-41e9-9504-d166b1caff10 9788763512732 235 open access
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During the mid-20th century, old South Greenlanders still spoke their genuine dialects when Mâliâraq Vebæk, herself a South Greenlander, born 1917, collected on tape stories and descriptions of pre-modern daily life from 42 informants. In this volume, the texts appear in dialectal transcription and translated into English, as well as in sound on the inserted CD-Rom, containing the tape recordings. Among the South Greenlandic dialects, the southernmost from the Cape Farewell region, which is now extinct, attracts particular interest, because this area received emigrants from the gradually depopulated southeast coast during the 19th century. The so-called qavak-dialect of the Cape Farewell region thus became an interesting mixture of the southeast and southwest Greenlandic dialects.
This publication is targetted at linguists and is the first and only presentation of the South Greenlandic dialects. A phonological introduction is offered for the benefit of the linguists, but any reader of English (or the dialects) interested in stories, Greenland etc. can fully enjoy the texts.
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