{"id":2065,"date":"2010-02-11T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:33:16","slug":"angaginax%cc%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/angaginax%cc%82\/","title":{"rendered":"An\u011da\u011dinax\u0302"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/javacolleen\/3564271536\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3346\/3564271536_dae9a63491_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/javacolleen\/3564271536\/\">Unangax Aleut Dancers<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/javacolleen\/\">javacolleen<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Danish newspapers are reporting that Danish scientists have <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/videnskab\/article898010.ece\">decoded the DNA<\/a> from an individual from the Greenlandic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saqqaq_culture\">Saqqaq culture<\/a> (which died out completely).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.dk\/nyviden\/article1355666.ece\">their results<\/a>, they were most closely related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aleut\">Aleut people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, I don&#8217;t quite understand why they called the individual <i>Inuk<\/i> (&#8220;person&#8221; in Greenlandic), rather than <i>an\u011da\u011dinax\u0302<\/i>, which is the modern Aleut word.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, I wonder whether the Aleuts could demand to get Greenland back from the Inuits? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unangax Aleut Dancers Originally uploaded by javacolleen Danish newspapers are reporting that Danish scientists have decoded the DNA from an individual from the Greenlandic Saqqaq culture (which died out completely). According to their results, they were most closely related to the Aleut people. If this is the case, I don&#8217;t quite understand why they called the individual Inuk (&#8220;person&#8221; in Greenlandic), rather than an\u011da\u011dinax\u0302, which is the modern Aleut word. Hmmm, I wonder whether the Aleuts could demand to get Greenland back from the Inuits? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,117,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-linguistics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}