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Greenlandic is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and suffixes. The language's morphosyntactic alignment is ergative, treating both the argument (subject) of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb in one way, but the subject of a transitive verb in another.
The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic.The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85-90% of the total population), divided in three main dialects, Kalaallisut (West-Greenlandic, 44,000 speakers and the dialect that is used as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers).
The position of Speaker (Greenlandic: Siulittaasoq) (Danish: Formand) of the Inatsisartut (the Greenlandic Parliament) was created in 1979. [1] The preceding office was Chairman of the Landsråd of Greenland.
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Greenlanders (Greenlandic: Kalaallit), also called Greenlandics or Greenlandic people, [11] are an Inuit ethnic group native to Greenland. They speak Greenlandic , an Eskaleut language . Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Danish Realm , and its citizens hold Danish nationality .
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Greenland and Canada account for the bulk of Inuit speakers, although about 7,500 Alaskans speak some variety of an Inuit language out of a total population of over 13,000 Inuit. [3] An estimated 7,000 Greenlandic Inuit live in Denmark, the largest group outside of North America. Thus, the total population of Inuit speakers is about 100,000 people.