Inuit languages
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The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous North American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent subarctic regions as far south as Labrador
A stop sign in Inuktitut syllabics and English
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
Inuit languages
…Greenland the official form of Inuit language, and the official language of the state, is called Kalaallisut. In other languages, it is often called Greenlandic or some cognate term. The Inuit languages of Alaska are called Iñupiatun, but the variants of the Seward Peninsula are distinguished from the other…
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