• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      23 hours ago

      Ah-oo-yah-s-k? … Kee-seh-pah-tah-nah?

      I’m Ojibway / Cree … and this almost sounds like something in my language … kinda of like reading something in Latin for an English speaker

      It’s a different form of basic syllabics that I learned from. The ones you use look more like what the Inuit up north use that have more subtle inflections and notes to the sounds.

      Still very neat to see and I had to take time to read it because my memory of syllabics is very minimal and I haven’t used or memorized them in years.

      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        Yeah it’s Inuktitut, I figured saying “summer? What’s that?” Wouldn’t be as amusing in English. I don’t actually speak/write Inuktitut, I’m just obsessed with the arctic.