Tunumiit language

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East Greenlandic
Tunumiit oraasiat
Native to East Greenland
Ethnicity Tunumiit
Native speakers
unknown (3,000–3,500 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog tunu1234[2]
Inuktitut dialect map.svg
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.[3]

Notes

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


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