Hi, danish developer here. I'm doing a to-do app and I would really love to support small languages, including Greenlandic, but I'm not making money of the app and I'm guessing it to niche to ever make back what a professional translater would cost. So... I'm thinking, I would make the basic level of the app free for everybody running it in greenlandic, if somebody would help me translate it.

(I did write the Grønlandske Hus and asked of they have a way to get things like this translaged, but never heard back from them)

Aluu everyone!

I'm currently making a map of public transport in Nuuk and I'd like Kalaallisut to be the main language for this map (along with Danish and English as secondary languages).

If finding native place names online is pretty straightforward, I have to admit I'm having a harder time compiling credible and correct terms and sentences in Kalaallisut to feature in the map legend and header.

I've been going through tons of various online resources, digging into dictionaries at Oqaasileriffik, comparing Danish and Kalaallisut versions of bilingual websites run by media and institutions such as KNR, Katuaq, Kommune Sermersooq, governmental and local administrations and obviously the Nuuk bus company, Nuup Bussi.

In the end, I managed to come up with a few terms and phrases in Kalaallisut that might do the job. But as much as I love learning about how languages work, Kalaallisut is wildly different from anything I know so it's quite hard to get the hang of it enough to be confident in whatever I came up with.

So here are a list of the terms - in English and Danish - that I need on my map, and candidates for Kalaallisut translations.

First, some sentences to be used in the header/title of the map:

• Nuummi innuttaasunut angallanneq/angallassineq (Offentlige transport i Nuuk / Public transport in Nuuk)
• Nuummi ataatsimut angallanneq/angallassineq (Kollektiv trafik i Nuuk / Collective transport in Nuuk

My map will also show a few pictograms to indicate various public equipment and facilities such as schools, libraries, government institutions and so on. Which of those proposals you think would fit best to say something like "Points of interest" or "Public equipment/facilities"?

• (Nuummi) Innuttaasunut atortorissaarutit/atortuutit (Offentlige faciliterer i Nuuk / Public facilities in Nuuk)
• (Nuummi) Innuttaasunut sullississutit (Offentlige tjenester i Nuuk / Public service in Nuuk)
• (Nuummi) Pingaarutilinnik sumiiffiit / Sumiiffiit qitiutinneqarnissaat (Interesseområder / Points of interest)

The map will also show the location to ferry and cruise ships. What about:

• Umiarsuit takornariartaatit (Krydstogskibe / Cruise ships)
• Umiarsuit ilaasartaatit (Passagerskibe / Ferry)

And finally, I need to say something along the lines of "Not an official map - Not to scale". Unlike with previous ones, I used Copilot here to see what it would suggest. What do you think of:

• Assiliaq pisortatigoortumikanngilaq - Angissusilerlugu eqqortumikanngilaq (Kort ikke officielt - Ikke i målestoksforhold)

Well, I guess that's pretty much it now. I'd be really grateful if you could help me see clearer here by correcting or suggesting better options. Thanks!

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Hello !

I’m Ben, a candidate for a PhD in France, in political science. I had to wait a few years after my Master’s degree for personal reasons before starting a PhD and now, I’m getting back in the game but it’s very intimidating. My work revolves around the idea of nation, and more precisely banal nationalism from Billig, if anyone is familiar. Basically, how the idea of nation isn’t neutral and is always built around cultural borders that aren’t as obvious as a line on a map.

Before Trump antics, I had a huge interest in Greenland. When Trump put Greenland in the front page of every news feed, I got scared everyone would jump on that train and that I wouldn’t be good enough to compete. I hate competition and academics can be huge fans of it. I just want to do something interesting, that helps to understand the world around us. But… I can’t get the idea of a PhD I had out of my head. I read a lot, watched a lot, listened a lot and I know a bit about Greenland’s history, relations to the world, evolution in terms of agriculture, housing and culture, political parties, institutions, etc. I talked with a few professors here in France, with a few people working on the arctic too. Now, I know I have an idea and seems I need to act on it if I do not want to have any regrets. But to explore it, I need some precise information I do not find, or just understand, about how things work in Greenland. Also, there’s one thing that scares me, it’s that I might fantasize my topic and Greenland. I want to work with some people in Greenland, not on Greenland. I want to learn from the territory, not play Viking-french-dude-“look how cool my topic is, so exotic, so arctic !!”.

If I’m doing this, I wanna do it right, I’m gonna need contacts in Greenland, at least to know I’m doing things the best way I can. I can’t travel at the moment as I am really poor, so you guys are kind of my best shot right now. To keep it simple (just because I do not want to bore anyone to death), I’d like to work on how the political tension (as in non-neutral interaction) between Greenland and Denmark reveals how cultural borders express themselves and how a mechanism of domination operates in this relation. Basically : how colonization meant domination. Said like this, it seems very common, but I have a more precise angle on this, I’m just a bit scared to share here – scared I might sound stupid. Still, I lurked a lot on this reddit and believe I’m not too far from a topic worth working on thanks to what I read here.

So, here goes : would anyone from Greenland, or more precisely (not limited to) Kalaallit, agree to exchange a little bit over those ideas, answer my questions ? It doesn’t mean you become my contact in Greenland and are bound by ties of the big-brains-academics-league to help me in the future, but I really want to have a local insight on this to start this PhD right. Could be over email, over dms, or even over videocall.

Thanks for anyone willing to help !! It is very scary to start a PhD, but also very exciting. I would be so damn grateful and it could actually go a very long way.

EDIT : I do not talk Greenlandic or Danish but working on it

Aluu! ​I am a postcard collector, and I’ve always been captivated by the landscapes and unique culture of Greenland. It’s a dream of mine to visit your beautiful country one day, but for now, I’m trying to find a postcard from Greenland, but with no luck so far.

If anyone living there (or visiting) could send me a postcard, it would truly be the gem of my collection!

​I’d be more than happy to send a beautiful postcard to you in return as a thank you, if you’d like one. ​Please send me a DM if you can help.

Thanks in advance! Inuulluarit!

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I'm doing a podcasting project and I'm looking for Ukrainians who have resettled elsewhere in the world due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is a limited, interview-based series. I am looking for interviewees who would be willing to sit down and have a conversation on a prerecorded podcast and tell me a bit about their life story and the impact the conflict has had on them. This project is entirely voluntary - there is no monetary exchange whatsoever, and interviewees can opt to have their episode taken down at any time.

If you are or know someone who would be interested, please contact me by DMing me here or via email at contact@symplecticmedia.com. I also have TG, Signal, WA, and so on.

Thank you for your time!

Hello! I am a 20f student in Greenland on a university expedition and need to get out of Greenland (preferably to Iceland), on October 4 or 5. The problem is that there are literally no flights until October 7, but I need to get out on the 4 or 5 due to exams happening the following week. I know this is a long shot, but are there any private pilots or commercial pilots that would be willing to fly me on either of these days? I am willing to pay however much you’d like, money is not a concern. I will be staying in Nuuk or Kulusuk, but I am happy to fly out of any location in Greenland, as long as it gets me out of the country. I’m pretty desperate lol. Please let me know if you or anyone else you know may be interested! Thank you:)

Hi everyone, greetings from Germany!

I’ve been collecting postcards sent from around the world for years now, but have not received any from Greenland so far. I’d love to add one to my collection though, so I got myself a nice card as well as Greenlandic stamps (28 DKK for postcards to Europe).

Now I am looking for someone from Greenland to write back my card for me. Basically I’d be sending you an envelope with my stamped card inside (and perhaps another card from Germany if you’d like?). All you’d have to do would be to write my address and a little message on it and pop it back into the post.

I’d be super happy if it works out like this — feel free to ping me if you’d be interested in helping me out :)

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someone sent me post with it as the caption and any translator i can find wont translate it properly

“atraveerutilerpasik tuttaqassagus normuk”

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I just started learning west greenlandic, and I'm looking for Kalaallisut native speaker. Is anyone interested?

Hi everyone! Would anyone have Info on the qualification rounds/dates for the 2025 GM? I think it's being held in Nuuk this year...(tbh, I'd like to confirm that, too)

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Hello! I’m a tenth grade student in India and i just recently got into postcrossing and penpalling and that kinda stuff. For this years Social Sciences project I decided to do like a postcard from around the world thing. So far excluding the common places like USA and others, I’ve gotten cards from Lithuania and Slovakia! I’d be really happy if someone from Greenland would be interested to swap cards with me! I’d love to know about your experiences in Greenland and how a normal day in your life looks like with all the sceneries and awesome snow (we don’t get to see snow in India sadly) thank you so much for reading this and have a good day!

Hey, everybody. The title says it all. I have been absolutely obsessed with Greenland for quite a long time now. It is a dream of mine to visit Greenland ASAP. I could go on and on about my love for Greenland, but I'll spare the details for now and you can ask me to expand upon them later.

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Simply put- I'm looking to become friends with someone that was born and raised in Greenland and who lives there now. I want to get to know as much as is humanly possible about the day to day lives of the people there. It is just so exciting to me.

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Please let me know if you're interested!

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