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Tunumiisut (lit. 'language of the Tunumiit'), also known as East Greenlandic (Danish: østgrønlandsk), is the language of the Tunumiit in East Greenland. It is generally categorised as a dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.
Index. Indigenous North Americas. Canada portal. v. t. e. The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent subarctic regions as far south as Labrador.
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Tunumiit oraasiat, (or Tunumiisut in Kalaallisut, often East Greenlandic in other languages), is the dialect of eastern Greenland. It differs sharply from other Inuit language variants and has roughly 3,000 speakers. Avanersuaq is the dialect of the area around Qaanaaq in northern Greenland.
- 56,200, 88% of ethnic population (2007)
There are three main dialects: West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), East Greenlandic (Tunumiisut / Tunumiit oraasiat) and North Greenlandic (Avanersuarmiutut). West Greenlandic is spoken by 53,000 people (in 1995) in Nuuk, Sisimiut and Kangerussuaq. It is has been the official language of the Greenlandic autonomous territory since 2009 - before then ...
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Jan 1, 2010 · Nicole Tersis & Pierre Taverniers. Chapter. First Online: 01 January 2010. Abstract. The analysis of a set of Inuit words associated with the “ice,” collected in west and east Greenland (Kalaallisut and Tunumiisut), shows how polysynthesis works in lexical morphology.
