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Preferred term

kalKalaallisut  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Greenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by about 57,000 people in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada, such as Inuktitut. The main dialect, Kalaallisut or West Greenlandic, has been the official language of the Greenlandic autonomous territory since June 2009; this is a move by the Greenlandic government to strengthen the language in its competition with the colonial language, Danish. Other dialects are East Greenlandic (Tunumiisut) and the Thule dialect Inuktun or Polar Eskimo.

Entry terms

  • Greenlandic
  • Greenlandic language

ISO 639-1 code

  • kl

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kal

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kal

ISO 639-3 code

  • kal

Notation

  • kal

In other languages

  • groenlandais

    French

  • Groenlandais
  • Grönländisch

    German

  • Grönländische Sprache
  • kalaallisut

    Italian

  • Lingua groenlandese
  • groenlandês

    Portuguese

  • Língua groenlandesa
  • groenlandés

    Spanish

  • Idioma groenlandés

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kal

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