Tunumiit language

East Greenlandic
Tunumiit oraasiat
Native to East Greenland
Ethnicity Tunumiit
Native speakers
 3,000–3,500 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog tunu1234[2]

Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey.

Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic, known as Tunumiisut in Kalaallisut, is a variety of Greenlandic spoken in eastern Greenland by the Tunumiit. It is generally considered a divergent dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.[3][4] 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

  1. ↑ 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tunumiisiut". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
  4. ↑ Mennecier, Philippe (1995). Le tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental: description et analyse. Collection linguistique, 78 (in French). Société de linguistique de Paris, Peeters Publishers.
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