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This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Greenland. There are 26 mammal species native to Greenland, of which none are critically endangered, three are endangered, three are vulnerable, two are near threatened and four are data deficient. [1] Only seven of these species are fully terrestrial.
Other familiar mammals in Greenland include the Arctic hare, collared lemming, Beringian ermine and Arctic fox. [3] Reindeer hunting is of considerable cultural importance to the people of Greenland. Domesticated land mammals include dogs , which were introduced by the Inuit , as well as such European-introduced species as goats , Greenlandic ...
Greenlanders (Greenlandic: Kalaallit), also called Greenlandics or Greenlandic people, [11] are an Inuit ethnic group native to Greenland. They speak Greenlandic , an Eskaleut language . Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Danish Realm , and its citizens hold Danish nationality .
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"Kalaallit", the name of the largest ethnic group of Greenlandic Inuit, is probably derived from skræling. [3] In 1750, Paul Egede mentions that the Inuit used "Inuit" among themselves, but used Kalaallit when speaking to non-Inuit, stating that this was the term used by Norse settlers.
It is also a contemporary term in the Greenlandic language for the Indigenous of Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat). [3] The Kalaallit (singular: Kalaaleq [4]) are a part of the Arctic Inuit. The language spoken by Inuit in Greenland is known as Kalaallisut, known in English as Greenlandic.
In Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) for example, the ergative case is used to mark subjects of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns. This syncretism with the genitive is commonly referred to as the relative case.
Greenlandic is an ergative–absolutive language and so instead of treating the grammatical relations, as in English and most other Indo-European languages, whose grammatical subjects are marked with the nominative case and objects with the accusative case, Greenlandic grammatical roles are defined differently.