Tunumiit language
| East Greenlandic | |
|---|---|
| Tunumiit oraasiat | |
| Native to | East Greenland |
| Ethnicity | Tunumiit |
Native speakers | 3,000–3,500 (1995)[1] |
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Eskimo–Aleut
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog |
tunu1234[2] |
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Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey. | |
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)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tunumiisiut". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
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