Inuktitut Language

Jul 2, 2015 09:45
Today, I learned about Inuktitut.

Inuktitut is a language that is used by Inuit who live in the northern part of Canada.

In order to express some languages of the Canadian Aboriginal, Inuktitut has been devised by James Evans in 1840.

Recently around 30 thousand people use Inuktitut, and the characters of it have unique shapes based on ancient India characters like following:

ᓵᓕ ᑕᓚᕖᓴᕆᐊᒥᒃ ᐅᓪᓗᕆᐋᓂᑦᑐᖑᐊᓂᒃ ᐊᓕᐊᓱᑉᐸᑐᖅ

I couldn't understand this sentence, but these characters excited me.

This looks as if space language, or puzzle.

By the name, my name is written as follows:

ᑲᓄᐊᑐᐊᕈ
No. 1　Hannah's correction
  • Inuktitut Language
  • This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
  • Today, I learned about Inuktitut.
  • This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
  • Inuktitut is a language that is used by Inuit who live in the northern part of Canada.
  • Inuktitut is a language that is used by Inuits who live in the northern part of Canada.
  • In order to express some languages of the Canadian Aboriginal, Inuktitut has been devised by James Evans in 1840.
  • In order to express some languages of the Canadian Aboriginal, Inuktitut was devised by James Evans in 1840.
  • Recently around 30 thousand people use Inuktitut, and the characters of it have unique shapes based on ancient India characters like following:
  • Today around 30 thousand people use Inuktitut, and its characters of it have unique shapes based on ancient Indian characters like the following:
  • I couldn't understand this sentence, but these characters excited me.
  • I can't understand this sentence, but these characters excited me.
    　Me too! Very pretty!
  • This looks as if space language, or puzzle.
  • This looks like an alien language, or a puzzle.
    　Creatures in (outer) space = aliens.
  • By the name, my name is written as follows:
  • By the way, my name is written as follows:
Very cool! Thank you for sharing. :)
kanotown
Thank you very much for correcting my post!
I want to be able to write some phrases in Inuktitut. :)
No. 2　Oceansea's correction
  • Inuktitut is a language that is used by Inuit who live in the northern part of Canada.
  • Inuktitut is a language that is used by the Inuit people who live in the northern part of Canada.
  • In order to express some languages of the Canadian Aboriginal, Inuktitut has been devised by James Evans in 1840.
  • In order to express some the languages of the Canadian Aboriginals, Inuktitut has been was devised by James Evans in 1840.
    　James Evans did not invent the Inuktitut language however, he only invented the symbols used to write it, so it would be better to say something like:

    "In order to express the languages of the Canadian Aboriginals, James Evans devised a script for Inuktitut in 1840."

    A "script" can also refer to the alphabet or symbols that a language uses in writing.
  • Recently around 30 thousand people use Inuktitut, and the characters of it have unique shapes based on ancient India characters like following:
  • Recently Today around 30 thousand people use speak Inuktitut, and its characters of it have unique shapes based on ancient Indian characters like the following:
    　I think "speak" sounds more precise than "use" in this case, but "use" is okay.

    "Recently" doesn't work here because this is not a sudden event or trend. These 30 thousand people have been speaking Inuktitut their entire lives. They did not just learn it all of a sudden.
  • I couldn't understand this sentence, but these characters excited me.
  • I couldn't can't understand this sentence, but these characters excited me.
    　"Couldn't" might imply that you can understand it now.

    Changed "excited" to "excite" so that the tense is the same. Otherwise, I might say "... but these characters excited me when I first saw them."
  • This looks as if space language, or puzzle.
  • This looks as if like a language from outer space, or a puzzle.
    　"As if" needs some kind of a verb to follow it eventually. For example: "It looks as if a space language was used to write this sentence."
  • By the name, my name is written as follows:
  • By the way, my name is written as follows:
This was a very fun entry to read!
kanotown
Thank you very much for the collections and the comments!
Your explanations are really helpful to me! :D
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