Inuktun

Inuktun
Polar Inuit
avanersuarmiutut[1]
Native toGreenland
Kingdom of Denmark
RegionAvanersuaq
EthnicityInughuit
Native speakers
(800–1,000 cited 1995)[2]
Eskaleut
Early forms
Official status
Official language in
Greenland
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologpola1254  Polar Eskimo
Inuit dialects. Inuktun is the brown area ("Avanersuaq") in the northwest of Greenland.
North Greenlandic is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Inuktun (English: Polar Inuit, Greenlandic: avanersuarmiutut, Danish: nordgrønlandsk, polarinuitisk, thulesproget) is the language of approximately 1,000 indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland.[3]

  1. ^ "Greenland - People | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  2. ^ 770 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Holtved, Erik (January 1952). "Remarks on the Polar Eskimo Dialect". International Journal of American Linguistics. 18 (1): 20–24. doi:10.1086/464143. S2CID 143645596.