Tunumiisut | |
Nativename: | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic: tunumiisut |
States: | East Greenland |
Ethnicity: | Tunumiit |
Speakers: | 3,000–3,500 |
Date: | 1995 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Eskimo-Aleut |
Fam2: | Eskimo |
Fam3: | Inuit |
Fam4: | Greenlandic |
Ancestor: | Proto-Eskimo–Aleut |
Ancestor2: | Proto-Eskimo |
Ancestor3: | Proto-Inuit |
Glotto: | tunu1234 |
Glottorefname: | Tunumiisiut |
Map: | Inuktitut dialect map.svg |
Mapcaption: | Map of the Inuit languages; Tunumiisut is grey. |
Map2: | Lang Status 60-DE.svg |
Ietf: | kl-tunumiit |
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic: Tunumiisut, also known as East Greenlandic (Danish: østgrønlandsk), is the language of the Tunumiit in East Greenland. It is generally categorised as a dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.[2] [3] The largest town where it is the primary language is Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, with the island's name being derived from the West Greenlandic name of the town.