Tunumiit dialect
Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic (Kalaallisut: tunumiusut, East Greenlandic: tunumiisut) 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.
East Greenlandic | |
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Tunumiit oraasiat | |
Native to | East Greenland |
Ethnicity | Tunumiit |
Native speakers | [1] |
Eskimo–Aleut
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | tunu1234 [2] |
![]() Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey. |
Notes
- 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tunumiisiut". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 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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