Nighugpagtaq, nighugpagtaq (twinkle, twinkle)

Yaari singing to my niece Ellenia.

Nighugpagtaq, nighugpagtaq ighaleqetaaq. Nalluneqsukaqamken. Quulvaghpaani qilagmi. Qelmeqsastun nunaami. Nighugpagtaq, nighugpagtaq ighaleqetaaq. Nalluneqsukaqamken!

Literal translation: Twinkle, twinkle. I'll send you a recording so you could learn how to pronounce the words.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• St.
• Lawrence
• Island
• Yup'ik
• Eskimo
• twinkle
• little
• star

[GukDei]

this is st. lawrence island yup'ik though.. diffrent language all together

[GukDei]

yea dont see why not, can learn just bout any language in anchorage

[urbaneximo]

do ppl teach yupik in anch?

[ungazik]

ниӷуқ /niʁuq/ = nighuq ("light")

[GukDei]

YARI

[ungazik]

I thin, the followings correspond: CHAPLINO -- ST LAWRENCE -- Meaning иг'алык'ытак' [ɨʁalɨqɨtaq] = ighaleqetaaq ("star") к'иляк [qilʲak] = qilak ("sky") -ми [-mi] = -mi (LOCATIVE CASE) к'илягми [qilʲaγmi] = qilagmi ("on the sky") к'ул(я) [qul-] (qulʲa) = quul- ("up") нуна [nuna] = nuna ("land") нунами [nunami] = nunaami ("on earth") -стун [-stun] = -stun ( COMPARATIVE CASE) -мкын [mkɨn] = -mken ("I ... you", subj P1 + obj P2)

[ungazik]

Thank You very much for the song. Thus, now I can hear "in life" the language I have been learning for years (not intensively).

I have tried to learn some Eskimo languages of Siberia:

-- that spoken near Novoye Chaplino (Ungaziq),

-- and also the recently extinct Sireniki Eskimo.

The Chaplino dialect (spoken by "Ungazigmit") seems for me to have similarities (identity?) to the language of this video song. I have a grammar, and also a tale collection, and some words, structures seem familiar.

[chukchichuk]

She is cute....Ooop I meant to say the song is cute.

[hatedolls]

omg!!! i'm also yupik!  cool. I want to learn!