Czech to Inuktitut in Latin script: transitive endings preserve who acts on whom
The target ending can identify both sides of seeing
Czech identifies an action’s participants through pronouns, case, agreement and context. Inuktitut transitive endings can encode both the actor and the person or thing affected. A Latin-script translation should preserve that two-part relationship rather than judge a long target verb as a simple replacement for the Czech lexical verb alone.
Tusaalanga’s South Qikiqtaaluk lesson contrasts takugikkit, I see you, with takuginnga, you see me. The change reverses the participants. Both expressions involve seeing, but selecting the wrong ending changes who perceives whom even if the target root remains correct.
The CzechEncy agreement account distinguishes subject-related features from an object’s description and case. Those source cues should be read together before a target double ending is chosen. Translating the Czech subject correctly in isolation is insufficient if the target verb then assigns that person the receiving role.
Czech gender agreement does not choose every target participant feature
The Czech agreement article contrasts first-person participles according to whether the speaker is Petr or Eva. That gender information belongs to the source participant, while the auxiliary identifies first person. The Inuktitut choice still needs the relationship between that speaker and the affected participant.
Tusaalanga distinguishes a simple ending identifying the actor from a more complex ending identifying actor and object. Thus a Czech source containing an explicit object can require more target morphology than a source merely reporting that someone sees. Leaving that relationship out can make the target less specific than the original.
This is useful when a Czech message alternates I see you with you see me, or describes someone helping the writer. Preserve the direction of the action in each clause. A correctly copied person name or an inferred gender does not repair a target ending which points the action the other way.
Roman letters still follow Inuktitut sound and stem rules
The transitive lesson explains that some endings beginning with g change after roots ending in q, and that other stem endings have their own patterns. One familiar ending should not be attached unchanged to every translated verb. The lexical root and the required participant combination must be evaluated together.
Tusaalanga’s Roman orthography guide also explains that doubled vowels and consonants represent pronunciation, including length. A Czech reader may be accustomed to marking long vowels with written accents, but the target’s doubled letters are not accidental duplication to be removed.
For this Latin-script direction, preserve the target spelling after the grammar is established. A spelling that looks simpler to a Czech reader can erase a sound distinction or obscure the intended ending. The examples here follow South Qikiqtaaluk lessons and their Roman conventions; they do not imply that syllabic conversion, another regional spelling or a Czech-style pronunciation can be substituted without further linguistic decisions.
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