Tunumiit dialect

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

Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic (Kalaallisut: tunumiusut, East Greenlandic: tunumiisut; Danish: Østgrøndlandsk) is a variety of Greenlandic spoken in eastern Greenland by the Tunumiit. It is generally considered a divergent dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.[2][3] The largest town where it is the primary language is Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, with the island's name being derived from the West Greenlandic name of the town.

Notes[]

  1. ^ 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ^ Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
  3. ^ Mennecier, Philippe (1995). Le tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental: description et analyse. Collection linguistique, 78 (in French). Société de linguistique de Paris, Peeters Publishers.
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