Uqauhira

 

Uqauhira piqpagivialukkiga. 

 

Uqauhira una ataataangma, naanangmalu taataangmalu qaihimavlugu uvamnun. Uvapkun una uqauhira pimmanngitkiga. Naalaktuaqlugit ilatka, tamaani inuuniaqtuat utuqqanaat inugiaktuat, uqauhira una uvamnititkaat. Taitnaqhlugu uqauhira piqpagivialukkiga.  

 

Piqpagivialutkitka utuqqanaat hivuliivut. Inuutquvlugit itna uqauhimnik havakama. Uqauhiralu piiguqhailirariga hivuliivut inuutquvlugit taimunga taimunga taimunga.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Language

I love my language.

 

My grandparents – my grandfather and my grandmother – passed my language on to me. I did not learn my language by myself. I learned it by listening continuously to my relatives, and by living it the many elders planted my language in me. That is why I love my language so much.

 

I love our elders who lived before me. Because I want them to live on, I work with language. And my language, I try not to forget it, because I want our ancestors to live forever and ever and ever.