Re: Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <roskis@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> >
>
> > >
> > > By the way, the Inuits in Greenland are heavily users of

uvular R

> > in
> > > their language. I am sure the Danish uvular R is from massive
> > Inuit
> > > influence, since Greenland got under Danish administration.
> >
> >
> > A nice demonstration of traditional beliefs in southern
> > Scandinavia. /R/ is 'bonnig' "peasant-like", in Sweden in

particular

> > Scanian. A large part of southern Sweden seems to have been

occupied

> > by Inuits too.
> >
> > Torsten
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but my impression is that;
>
> inu - person
> inuit - people,
>
> So inuit is already plural.
>

inuk, actually (or inuq?).
Danish plural would be inuitter.

Torsten