Tunumiisut

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East Greenlandic
Tunumiit oraasiat
Native toEast Greenland
EthnicityTunumiit
Native speakers
(3,000–3,500 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologtunu1234
Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey.

Tunumiit oraasiat, known as Tunumiisut in Greenlandic and also as East Greenlandic in English, is a variety of Inuit spoken in eastern Greenland by the Tunumiit. It is generally considered a divergent dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4