no worries !! let me know if you'd also prefer me to use the italics as an indicator for inuktitut, because that's perfectly fine to me if it's helpful !! <3
she must knew it well, to switch to the arctic tongue from common so easily. rala still found herself using the words of the nunavut peoples every so often, the northern phrases slipping into her day-to-day within these lands, where so many spoke the universal language. not this one, though, and so she smiled.
aup ingirraninga auk ingirraqattarninga,her musings were almost poetic, in a way.
uummatima saalagiqattarmagu - ukiuqtaqtumiimmata, ukiuqtaqtumi ammalu uqanga uqausiuvattuq taikani. uqaqpunga,song-like in her proclamation, though volume lowered as to not disturb any nearby animals, and therefore doom their hunt. blood-scent was close, now. it smelt that the caribou had an open wound ; such a thing could be an advantage to the woman who stalked along. hunters. watchers.
she looked to stargirl, then.
uqausittiavammarialuk. uvanga, upigusukpugut uqallagiaksaq,and, curiously, she asked:
taimaatsainnaq isumavit, yuralria?
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cold nostalgia chills me to the bone - by Yura - December 24, 2024, 10:42 AM
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