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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.
Iivit or Tunumiit are Indigenous Greenlandic Inuit from Iivi Nunaa, Tunu in the area of Kangikajik and Ammassalik, the eastern part of Inuit Nunaat (East Greenland). The Iivit live now mainly in Tasiilaq and Ittoqqortoormiit and are a part of the Arctic people known collectively as the Inuit.
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.
Tunumiisut ist der in Ostgrönland gesprochene der drei Hauptdialekte des Grönländischen. Das von den Tunumiit besiedelte Ostgrönland hat rund 3100 Einwohner, die mehrheitlich Tunumiisut sprechen.
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.
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.
Data on Kalaallisut. Alternate Names: Greenlandic, West Greenlandic, East Greenlandic, North Greenlandic, Avanersuarmiutut, Tunumiisut. The term “Kalaallisut” refers both to the official language of Greenland, and to a dialectal variation spoken on the western coast of Greenland which forms the basis for the standard language.
