Tunumiit language

East Greenlandic
Tunumiit oraasiat
Native to	East Greenland
Ethnicity	Tunumiit
Native speakers	3,000–3,500 (1995)^[1]
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Inuit Greenlandic East Greenlandic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`tunu1234`^[2]
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] The largest town where it is the primary language is Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, with the Island's name being derived from the West Greenlandic name of the town.

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

Greenlandic language

Alphabet Æ Ø Å Greenlandic Braille Grammar History Phonology

Varieties	Kalaallisut Inuktun Tunumiisut

Other topics	West Greenlandic Pidgin Inuit languages Danish

Languages of Denmark

Official languages	Danish

Officially recognised regional languages	Faroese Greenlandic

Regional dialects	Danish Bornholmsk Insular Jutlandic Faroese Gøtudanskt Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktun

Sign languages	Danish Sign Greenlandic Sign

Recognised minority language	German

See Also: Minority languages of Denmark

Eskimo–Aleut languages and dialects

Aleut	Aleut

Inuit¹	Greenlandic Kalaallisut Tunumiit Inuktun Inuinnaqtun (disputed) Kangiryuarmiutun Inuktitut North Baffin (disputed) Inuttitut Inupiaq (Iñupiaq Braille) Qawiaraq Uummarmiutun Inuvialuktun Aivilik Kangiryuarmiutun Kivalliq Netsilik North Baffin (disputed) Siglitun Utkuhiksalik

Yupik	Alutiiq Central Alaskan Yugtun Nunivak Cup'ig Chevak Cup’ik Central Siberian Naukan Sirenik²

See also	Proto-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo-Aleut Inuktitut syllabics (writing system) Inuit phonology Inuit grammar Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Yugtun script

Italics indicate extinct languages 1: The Inuit language 'family' is a continuum of dialects 2: Some linguists classify Sirenik as under a separate branch

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