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Published: August 17th 2019
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Today was a very relaxing day on the boat. Other than 3 meals today, looking for whales (never saw any), watching movies, spotting occasional icebergs, and just hanging out there’s not much to do on this boat. It’s not like cruise ships: no casino, pool, spa, exercise room, nightly show, etc. It’s just a transport boat.
The highlight today was a visit to the bridge. We were able to ask the captain lots of questions. Turns out we are in water that is too shallow for whales, so hopefully we will see whales north of here. We travel at 11 knots, the water is about 48 meters deep (when we were there), and the water temperature is 3 Celsius.
The boat made 3 stops today at different villages. I think the villages are cute, but I cannot imagine wintering over here with few hours of daylight and the cold temperatures. Tomorrow morning we arrive in Nuuk.
A bit of information about the Greenlandic language from Wikipedia:
Greenlandic (
kalaallisut) is an
Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by about 56,000
Greenlandic Inuit in
Greenland. It is closely related to the
Inuit languages in
Canada such as
Inuktitut. The main variety,
Kalaallisut or West Greenlandic,
has been the official language of the Greenlandic autonomous territory since June 2009; this is a move by the
Naalakkersuisut (government of Greenland) to strengthen the language in its competition with the colonial language,
Danish. The second variety is
Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic. The Thule Inuit of Greenland,
Inuktun or Polar Eskimo, is a recent arrival and a dialect of
Inuktitut.
The most prominent Greenlandic dialect is
West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), which is the official language of Greenland. The name
Kalaallisut is often used as a cover term for all of Greenlandic. The northern dialect,
Inuktun (Avanersuarmiutut), spoken in the vicinity of the city of
Qaanaaq (Thule), is particularly closely related to Canadian Inuktitut. The eastern dialect
(Tunumiit oraasiat), spoken in the vicinity of
Ammassalik Island and
Ittoqqortoormiit, is the most innovative of the Greenlandic dialects, having
assimilated consonant clusters and vowel sequences to a greater extent than West Greenlandic.
Kalaallisut is further divided into four subdialects. One that is spoken around
Upernavik has certain similarities to East Greenlandic, possibly because of a previous migration from eastern Greenland. A second dialect is spoken in the region of
Uummannaq and the
Disko Bay. The standard language is based on the central Kalaallisut dialect spoken
in
Sisimiut in the north, around
Nuuk and as far south as
Maniitsoq. Southern Kalaallisut is spoken around
Narsaq and
Qaqortoq in the south.
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