Tunumiit language

East Greenlandic
Tunumiit oraasiat
Native to	East Greenland
Ethnicity	Tunumiit
Native speakers	3,000–3,500 (1995)[1]
Language family	Eskimo–Aleut Eskimo Inuit Greenlandic East Greenlandic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tunu1234[2]
Inuit dialects. Tunumiit is grey.

Tunumiit oraasiat or East Greenlandic, known as Tunumiisut in Kalaallisut, is a variety of Greenlandic spoken in eastern Greenland by the Tunumiit. It is generally considered a divergent dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language.^[3][4] The largest town where it is the primary language is Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, with the Island's name being derived from the West Greenlandic name of the town.

Notes

1. 3,000 in Greenland, and perhaps 20% more in Denmark. Greenlandic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tunumiisiut". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nicole Tersis, in Variations on polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages Ch. 4
4. Mennecier, Philippe (1995). Le tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental: description et analyse. Collection linguistique, 78 (in French). Société de linguistique de Paris, Peeters Publishers.