| 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 (da|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.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lateral | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||