Kalaallisut
E79279
Kalaallisut is the Greenlandic Inuit language, an Eskimo–Aleut tongue spoken primarily in Greenland and serving as the territory’s official language.
Observed surface forms (5)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Greenlandic | 0 | 3 |
| Central West Greenlandic | 0 | 1 |
| North Greenlandic | 0 | 1 |
| South Greenlandic | 0 | 1 |
| West Greenlandic | 0 | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eskimo–Aleut language
→
Greenlandic language → Inuit language → language → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Greenlandic
→
Kalaallisut →
surface form:
West Greenlandic
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Inuinnaqtun
→
Inuktitut → Inupiaq → |
| country | Greenland → |
| hasCaseSystem | ergative–absolutive alignment in noun morphology → |
| hasDialects |
Kalaallisut
self-linksurface differs
→
surface form:
Central West Greenlandic
North Greenlandic → Kalaallisut self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
South Greenlandic
|
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
extensive use of suffixes
→
incorporation of nouns into verbs → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
limited consonant inventory
→
long and short vowels → |
| ISO639-1Code | kl → |
| ISO639-2Code | kal → |
| ISO639-3Code | kal → |
| languageBranch |
Inuit
→
surface form:
Eskimo
|
| languageFamily |
Eskimo–Aleut languages
→
surface form:
Eskimo–Aleut
|
| languageSubbranch | Inuit → |
| morphologicalType | polysynthetic → |
| nativeName | kalaallisut → |
| numberOfSpeakers | tens of thousands → |
| officialLanguageOf | Greenland → |
| partOf | Greenlandic cultural identity → |
| region |
Arctic region
→
surface form:
Arctic
North America → |
| regulatedBy | Oqaasileriffik → |
| spokenIn |
Canada
→
Denmark → Greenland → |
| standardizedIn | 20th century → |
| subclassOf |
Agglutinative language
→
Head-marking language → Nominative–accusative language → Polysynthetic language → SOV language → |
| typicalWordOrder | SOV → |
| usedAs | lingua franca within Greenland → |
| uses |
administration in Greenland
→
daily communication in Greenland → education in Greenland → media in Greenland → |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet → |
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
West Greenlandic
this entity surface form:
North Greenlandic
this entity surface form:
Central West Greenlandic
this entity surface form:
South Greenlandic
this entity surface form:
Greenlandic
this entity surface form:
Greenlandic
this entity surface form:
Greenlandic