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- KalaallisutFrom Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greenlandic can be divided into three dialects: Kalaallisut or, in English, Greenlandic, is the standard dialect and official language of Greenland. This standard national language is now taught to all Greenlanders in school, regardless of their native dialect.Ethnicity: Greenlandic InuitNative speakers: 56,200, 88% of ethnic population (2007)
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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_languageGreenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about 56,000 speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut. It is the most widely spoken Eskimo–Aleut language. Greenlandic has been the sole official language of the
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See moreGreenlandic was brought to Greenland by the arrival of the Thule people in the 1200s. The languages that were spoken by the earlier Saqqaq and Dorset cultures in Greenland are unknown.
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See moreLetters between slashes / / indicate phonemic transcription, letters in square brackets [ ] indicate phonetic transcription and letters in triangular
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The morphology of Greenlandic is highly synthetic and exclusively suffixing except for a single highly-limited and fossilized demonstrative prefix. The...
See moreGreenlandic is written with the Latin script. The alphabet consists of 18 letters:
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⟨b, c, d, h, w, x, y, z, æ, ø, å⟩ are used to spell loanwords, especially from Danish and English. Greenlandic uses "..." and »...« as...
See moreKalaallisut and the other Greenlandic dialects belong to the Eskimo–Aleut family and are closely related to the Inuit languages of Canada and Alaska. Illustration 1 shows the
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See moreMost of Greenlandic's vocabulary is inherited from Proto-Eskimo–Aleut, but there are also a large number of loans from other languages, especially from Danish. Early loans from Danish have often become acculturated to the Greenlandic phonological
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See moreArticle 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Greenlandic:
(Pre-reform)
Inuit tamarmik inúngorput nangminêrsivnâgsusseĸarlutik agsigĩmigdlo atarĸinagsusseĸarlutigdlo pisivnâtitãfeĸarlutik....
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The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic. The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85-90% of the total population), divided in three main dialects, Kalaallisut (West-Greenlandic, 44,000 speakers and the dialect that is used as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers). The remainder of th…
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Greenlandic can be divided into three dialects: Kalaallisut or, in English, Greenlandic, is the standard dialect and official language of Greenland. This standard national language is now …
- Ethnicity: Greenlandic Inuit
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- Native speakers: 56,200, 88% of ethnic population (2007)
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Greenlandic Norse is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Norse settlements of Greenland until their demise in the late 15th century. The language is primarily …
- Writing system: Younger Futhark
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is an island country part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located …
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Greenlandic language, an Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language spoken by the people of Greenland Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) Inuktun (North Greenlandic) Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) …
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