Tunumiit dialect

Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic (Kalaallisut: tunumiusut, East Greenlandic: tunumiisut) 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.[3][4] 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.

East Greenlandic
Tunumiit oraasiat
Native toEast Greenland
EthnicityTunumiit
Native speakers
[1]
Eskimo–Aleut
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologtunu1234[2]
Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey.

Notes
  1. 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tunumiisiut". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
  4. 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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