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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.
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 ]
The Eskaleut (/ ɛ ˈ s k æ l i uː t / e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan [1] languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
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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 .
Birnirk people were sea-mammal hunters who engaged in fishing and whaling. [6] Birnirk houses were square shaped, with walls constructed of horizontal logs and single or double posts in each corner. Sleeping areas were at the back of the dwelling and were either built up or at floor level.
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)
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.