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The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic.The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85-90% of the total population), divided in three main dialects, Kalaallisut (West-Greenlandic, 44,000 speakers and the dialect that is used as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers).
Kalaallisut (lit. ' language of the Kalaallit '), also known as West Greenlandic (Danish: vestgrønlandsk), is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people). [2]
Greenlandic, the language they speak, is vastly different from Danish. ... is one of the most remote U.S. military assignments in the world. Built on permafrost in Greenland's far north, it hosts ...
Distribution of Inuit language variants across the Arctic [image reference needed] Greenlandic was brought to Greenland by the arrival of the Thule people in the 1200s. The languages that were spoken by the earlier Saqqaq and Dorset cultures in Greenland are unknown. The first descriptions of Greenlandic date from the 1600s.
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.
People of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and citizens of the European Union. Approximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57,695 is Greenlandic Inuit, or 51,349 people as of 2012. [9] Ethnographically, they consist of three major groups: the Kalaallit of west Greenland, who speak Kalaallisut
As 84% of Greenland's landmass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Kalaallit live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s some Canadian Inuit migrated to Greenland and joined the Polar Inuit communities. [9] The Eastern Inuit, or Tunumiit, live in the area with the mildest climate, a territory called Ammassalik.
The overwhelming majority of Greenlanders do not want their island to become a part of the United States, according to a new poll. Only 6% said they would be in favor of their autonomous Arctic ...