Tunumiisut Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark.
  2. Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
  3. Mennecier, Philippe (1995). Le tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental: description et analyse. Collection linguistique, 78 (in French). Société de linguistique de Paris, Peeters Publishers.