Tunumiisut
East Greenlandic | |
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Tunumiit oraasiat | |
Native to | East Greenland |
Ethnicity | Tunumiit |
Native speakers | (3,000–3,500 cited 1995)[1] |
Eskaleut
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | tunu1234 |
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
- ^ 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4