Greenlandic language
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Greenlandic, also known by its endonym Kalaallisut, is an Inuit language belonging to the Eskimoan branch of the Eskaleut language family. It is primarily spoken by the Greenlandic people native to Gr
Sign in Greenlandic and Danish
A bilingual sign in Nuuk showing the contrast between Danish and Kalaallisut. The sign translates to "parking forbidden for all vehicles."
The orthography and the vocabulary of the Greenlandic language is governed by Oqaasileriffik, the Greenlandic language secretariat, located in the Ilisimatusarfik university campus in Nuuk.
⟨ĸ⟩ in a Greenlandic–Danish dictionary from 1926
The indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, before the arrival of Europeans. Over a thousand of these languages are still used
Greenlandic language
…language in Greenland with Danish. Since then, Greenlandic has become the sole official language. That has made Greenlandic the unique case of an Indigenous language of the Americas recognized by law as the only official language of a semi-independent country. Nevertheless, it is still considered to be in a "vulnerable" state by…
Yucatec Maya writing in the Dresden Codex, c.11–12th century, Chichen Itza
A Urarina shaman, 1988