Talk:Paaliaq

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English pronunciation [PAW-lee-uck].

follow up
Heard back from Michael Kusugak, who proposed the name. NASA had given the pronunciation as "pa-lee-AK" in a press release, with the accent messed up (which happens surprisingly often). Michael said,

"You are right about the accents. Kiviuq is pronounced Ki' vi uq (kee' vee oq, the q is gutteral, pronounced in the back of the tongue). Paw' lee ahq, See' ar nahq and Ee' ye rahq."

The double 'a' indicates that the vowel is long. kwami 06:08, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Paaliaq, Inuit myth
The name Paaliaq is not the name of any mythological character in Inuit legend as far as I know. When JJ Kavelaars asked me to help him with names from Inuit legend, I suggested a few. One of those was the most famous name in Inuit legend, Kiviuq. As background information, I sent him a chapter of one of my works in progress, a book called THE CURSE OF THE SHAMAN. The chapter is entitled, THE BEGINNING OF THE KIVIUQ LEGENDS. When one of the moons of Saturn was named Paaliaq, I was very surprised and honoured because Paaliaq is my own creation. He is the shaman in THE CURSE OF THE SHAMAN which has since been published by Harper-Collins Canada.

Michael Kusugak Nunavut Canada —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kusugak (talk • contribs) 21:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC).

Spoken Wikipedia recording
I've just uploaded an audio recording of the article. Please let me know if I've mispronounced anything. :-) --Mangst (talk) 20:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC)