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- Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic (East Greenlandic: tunumiisut, Kalaallisut: tunumiusut; Danish: østgrønlandsk) 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.
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Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic (East Greenlandic: tunumiisut, Kalaallisut: tunumiusut; Danish: østgrønlandsk) 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.
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Hello.
1. Haluu. ()
Hello. (informal)
1. Kutaa. ()
How are you?
1. Qanoq ippit?(?)
Cardinal Numbers
In Greenland only 1–12 in Greenlandic are used. This is caused by a system of numerals used in the past where the toes and fingers were used to count to 20 which would be inuk naalluguor a complete human. 79 would be four complete humans minus one. 0 1. nuulu, noor'lu (NOO-loo, NOR-loo) 1 1. ataaseq (at-AR-sek) 2 1. marluk (MAR-look) 3 1. pingasut (PEEN-ga-soot) 4 1. sisamat (SEE-sa-mat) 5 1. tallimat (TAL-li-mat) 6 1. arfineq (when counting and with time), arfinillit (when counting objects)...
Ordinal Numbers
first 1. siulleq (SEE-oo-leek) second 1. aappaa (ARP-par) third 1. pingajuat (peen-GA-joo-at) fourth 1. sisamaat (SEE-sa-mart) fifth 1. tallimaat (tal-LEE-mart) sixth 1. arvirnat (arv-ERN-at) seventh 1. arviniq aappaat (ARV-in-ik ARP-part) eighth 1. arviniq pingajuat (ARV-in-ik peen-GA-joo-at) ninth 1. qulingiluaat (Northern), qulaaluaat (Southern) (kwoo-LEENG-eel-yoo-art, KWOO-lar-loo-art) tenth 1. qulingat (kwoo-LEENG-at) eleventh 1. aqqarnat (ak-KAR-nat) twelfth 1. aqqaneq aappaat (AK-kan-...
yesterday
1. ippassaq ()
the day before yesterday
1. ippassaani ()
today
1. ullumi ()
West Kitaa / white 1. qaqortoq () black 1. qernertoq () red 1. aappalaartoq () green 1. qorsoq () blue 1. tungujortoq () yellow 1. sungaartoq ()
car
1. biili ()
bicycle
1. sikkili ()
boat (small, personal)
1. umiatsiaq ()
money
1. aningaasat ()
Danish Kroner
1. koroonit ()
Danish Øre
1. oorit ()
Tunumiit oraasiat, the Tunumiit dialect (or Tunumiisut in Greenlandic, often East Greenlandic in other languages), is the dialect of eastern Greenland. It differs sharply from other Inuit language variants and has roughly 3000 speakers according to Ethnologue.
Iivi language or the Tunumiit language, also called East Greenlandic or Iivi oraasia natively, is an indigenous language dialect of Greenlandic Inuit languages. (The official language of Greenland is a different dialect of the Inuit languages, Inuttut also known as Kalaallisut; the Inughuit speak Inuktun, which is more closely related to ...
Tunumiit oraasiat = Tunumiut oqaasii = The East Greenlandic Inuit language. Summary: Provides general description of grammatical forms and basic list of affixes and words used by Inuit on east coast of Greenland. Four sections: grammar, postbases, lexicon, and lexicon index.
In total, they span a range of 14 dialects, of which 3 exists in Greenland: Tunumiit Oraasiat in East Greenland, Kalaallisut in West Greenland (this is the dialect that represents the official language) and Avanersuarmiutut in Northern Greenland, the latter being the most closely related to Inuit languages in Alaska.
The Kalaallit speak Kalaallisut, the Tunumiit speak Tunumiit oraasiat, and the Inughuit speak Inuktun. Despite these differences, most of the indigenous people are bilingual, who can understand each other using Kalaallisut and Danish. After all, they are citizens of Denmark whose official language is Danish.
