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' language of the Kalaallit '), also known as West Greenlandic (Danish: vestgrønlandsk), is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people).
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The main variety is Kalaallisut, or West Greenlandic. The...
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West Greenlandic Pidgin is an extinct Greenlandic -based contact language once used between the Inuit of Greenland and European traders. The vocabulary is mostly Greenlandic.
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 ...
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The Inuit are descended from the Thule people, who settled Greenland in between AD 1200 and 1400. As 84 percent of Greenland's land mass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Inuit people live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s, additional Canadian Inuit joined the Polar Inuit communities. The Eastern Inuit, or Tunumiit, l...
Kalaallisut is the official language of Greenland. It is the western variety of the Greenlandic language, which is one of the Inuit languages within the Eskimo-Aleut family.Kalaallisut is taught in schools and used widely in Greenlandic media.
The first people arrived in Greenland from the Canadian island of Ellesmere, around 2500 to 2000 BCE, from where they colonized north Greenland as the Independence I culture and south Greenland as the Saqqaq culture. The Early Dorset replaced these early Greenlanders around 700 BCE, and themselves lived on the island until c. 1 CE. These people wer...
Gender rolesamong Greenlandic Inuit are flexible; however, historically men hunted and women prepared the meat and skins. Most marriages are by choice, as opposed to arranged, and monogamy is commonplace. Extended families are important to Inuit society. Greenland Inuit diet consists of a combination of local or traditional dishes and imported food...
The Greenlandic Inuit have a strong artistic practice based on sewing animal skins (skin-sewing) and making masks. They are also known for an art form of figures called tupilait or "evil spirit objects". Sperm whaleivory (teeth) remains a valued medium for carving. Customary art-making practices thrive in Ammassalik Island. Ammassalik wooden mapsar...
Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective Archived 2017-10-31 at the Wayback MachineGreenland ( Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American autonomous territory [14] of the Kingdom of Denmark. [15] It is the larger of two autonomous territories within the Kingdom, the other being the Faroe Islands; the citizens of both territories are ...
The Introduction to West Greenlandic (or AITWG for short) is my attempt to present the rules and regularities that pervade Greenlandic grammar, in a manner and style that should be accessible to anyone who has an interest in learning Greenlandic; i.e. no special knowledge of grammar or linguistics is required.
