Tunumiit language
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| East Greenlandic | |
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| Tunumiit oraasiat | |
| Native to | East Greenland |
| Ethnicity | Tunumiit |
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Native speakers
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unknown (3,000–3,500 cited 1995)[1] |
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Eskimo–Aleut
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | tunu1234[2] |
Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey.
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Tunumiit oraasiat, known as Tunumiisut in Greenlandic and also as East Greenlandic in English, is a variety of Inuit spoken in eastern Greenland by the Tunumiit. It is generally considered a divergent dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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- ↑ Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
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See Also: Minority languages of Denmark
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