 Bishop Sofie Petersen, first Inuit Lutheran bishop | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 57,777 (2023 est)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Greenland | |
| Languages | |
| Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) and Danish[1][2] | |
| Religion | |
| Inuit religion, Evangelical Lutheranism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Greenlandic Inuit, Inuit |
Kalaallit are a Greenlandic Inuit ethnic group, being the largest group in Greenland, concentrated in the west. It is also a contemporary term in the Greenlandic language for the Indigenous of Greenland (Greenlandic Kalaallit Nunaat).[3] The Kalaallit (singular: Kalaaleq[4]) are a part of the Arctic Inuit. The language spoken by Inuit in Greenland is known as Kalaallisut, known in English as Greenlandic.
- ^ a b "Greenland". The World Factbook (2024 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ^ "Inuktitut, Greenlandic."[dead link] Ethnologue. Retrieved 6 Aug 2012.
- ^ Hessel, 8
- ^ Store, P; Clarkson, Iain, eds. (1992). Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings of the Working. Darmstadt: De Gruyter. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-484-30359-1.