Greenlandic
Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland
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Summary
Greenlandic is a natural language[1]. Greenlandic draws 9,427 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #95 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Greenlandic Inuit people[3]
- Country: Kingdom of Denmark[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Follows: Middle Greenlandic[6]
- Subclass of: Inuit[7], Indigenous languages of the Americas[8]
- Writing system: Greenlandic alphabet[9], Kleinschmidt orthography[10], Scandinavian Braille[11]
- Commons category: Greenlandic language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: kl[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Greenlandic language[14]
- Language regulatory body: Oqaasileriffik[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 56,200[16]
- Native label: Kalaallisut[17]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[18]
- Indigenous to: Greenlandic Inuit people[19], Greenland[20]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KAL[21]
- Has grammatical case: absolutive case[22], relative case[23], allative case[24], ablative case[25], separative case[26], distantitive case[27], vialis case[28], equative case[29], instrumental case[30], temporal ablative case[31], temporal distributive case[32]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[33]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[34], agglutinative language[35], polysynthetic language[36], ergative–absolutive language[37]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Greenland[38]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Greenlandic-language films[39]
- Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[40]
Why It Matters
Greenlandic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Greenlandic is known by 110 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]