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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.
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.
Species represented include the beluga whale, blue whale, Greenland whale, fin whale, humpback whale, minke whale, narwhal, pilot whale, sperm whale. [10] Whaling was formerly a major industry in Greenland; by the turn of the 20th century, however, the right whale population was so depleted that the industry was in deep decline. [ 3 ]
Greenlandic Inuit are people identified with the country of Greenland, or of Greenlandic descent: see Demographics of Greenland. List of Greenlandic Inuit; Greenlandic culture; Greenlandic cuisine; Greenlandic people in Denmark; Greenlandic language, an Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language spoken by the people of Greenland Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic)
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Greenland is the world's largest island and an autonomous Danish dependent territory with self-government and its own parliament. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has ...
"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.
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.