Grammars

 First yEAR North Slope

North Slope Inupiaq Grammar 1st Year by Dr. Edna Ahgeak MacLean. Written for college and high school students, this text discusses Iñupiaq pronunciation, words, phonology, and grammar. It includes student exercises as well as an index and glossaries of stems, postbases, enclitics, and endings. Purchase here.

 

Second Year North Slope

The second-year grammar of Inupiaq contains six chapters on these grammatical constructions: contemporative I mood; operative-imperative and negative contemporative moods; demonstrative adverbs in locative, vialis, ablative, and terminalis; transitive "present" and "past" tense verb endings of the indicative mood; consequential-conditional mood; possessed relative nouns and demonstrative relative pronouns. See here.

 

Ilisazaqta Inupiaqtun

This grammar curriculum was developed by Myles Creed and Bernadette Alvanna-Stimpfle to teach Ugiuvaŋmiutun Inupiaq grammar in an Iñupiaq way, with lessons about weak-strong consonants and Inupiaq word structure to help language learners and teachers learn Ugiuvaŋmiutun and other varieties of Inupiaq. Special thanks to King Island Native Community, Kawerak, Inc. and many others. Read it here.

 

Beginning Iñupiaq Grammar

This grammar resource was developed by the Northwest Arctic Borough School District for use in high school classrooms. It is an easy to use resource that covers the basic structure of Iñupiaq.

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Let’s Learn Eskimo (Iñupiaq)

This grammar was written in the 1960s and though some language is dated, it still provides a comprehensive overview of Iñupiaq language grammar. Note that like some older dictionaries, this resources uses k with a dot below (ḳ) instead of q.

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