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Greenlandic may refer to:

• Something of, from, or related to Greenland, the self-governing Danish province (and largest island in the world) located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
• Historically, anything relating to the medieval Norse communities in southwestern Greenland (see History of Greenland)
• A person from Greenland, or of Greenlandic descent. For information about the Greenlandic people, see Demographics of Greenland and Culture of Greenland. For specific persons, see List of Greenlanders.
• One of the following languages:
  • Kalaallisut, the modern Greenlandic language, an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by the Kalaallit of Greenland. See also Languages of Greenland.
  • The extinct Greenlandic Norse language
  • Occasionally, the Danish language as spoken in Greenland

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From Wikitravel

Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) is the main language of Greenland.

Phrase list

Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

In Greenland only 1-12 in Greenlandic are used. This is caused by a system of numerals used in the past where the toes and fingers were used to count to 20 which would be inuk naallugu or a complete human. 79 would be four complete humans minus one.

0 

nuulu, noor'lu (NOO-loo, NOR-loo)

1 

ataaseq (at-AR-sek)

2 

marluk (MAR-look)

3 

pingasut (PEEN-ga-soot)

4 

sisamat (SEE-sa-mat)

5 

tallimat (TAL-li-mat)

6 

arfineq (when counting and with time), arfinillit (when counting objects) (AR-feen-ek, ar-FEEN-eel-lit)

7 

arfineq marluk (AR-feen-ek MAR-look)

8 

arfineq pingasut (AR-feen-ek PEEN-ga-soot)

9 

(Northern Greenlandic) qulingiluat (counting/time), qualaaluat (objects) (kwel-LING-il-yoo-at, kwal-AA-loo-at)

(Southern Greenlandic) qulaaluat (kwul-AA-loo-at)

10 

quilt (kwilt)

11 

aqqaneq (counting/time), aqqanillit (objects) (AK-kan-ek, ak-KAN-eel-lit)

(Northern Greenlandic) isikkaneq (counting/time), isikkanillit (objects) (ISI-kan-ek, isi-kan-EEL-lit)

12 

aqqaneq marluk (AK-kan-ek MAR-look)

(North Greenlandic) isikkaneq marluk (ISI-kan-ek MAR-look)

The numerals after 12 are Danish now but 13-20 in old Greenlandic are underneath as well as 100 and 1000:

13 

aqqaneq pingasut (AK-kan-ek PEEN-ga-soot)

14 

aqqaneq sisamat (AK-kan-ek SEE-sa-mat)

15 

aqqaneq tallimat (AK-kan-ek TAL-lee-mat)

16 

arvirsanillit (arv-ER-san-eel-lit)

17 

arvirsani marluk (arv-ER-san-ee MAR-look)

18 

arvirsani pingasut ( arv-ER-san-ee PEEN-ga-soot)

19 

arvirsani sisamat (arv-ER-san-ee SEE-sa-mat)

20 

arvirsani tallimat (arv-ER-san-ee TAL-lee-mat) or inuk naallugu (een-ook narl-loogoo)

100 

untriti (un-TREE-tee)

1000 

tuusinti (too-SEEN-tee)

Ordinal Numbers

first 

siulliq (SEE-oo-leek)

second 

aappaa (ARP-par)

third 

pingajuat (peen-GA-joo-at)

fourth 

sisamaat (SEE-sa-mart)

fifth 

tallimaat (tal-LEE-mart)

sixth 

arvirnat (arv-ERN-at)

seventh 

arviniq aappaat (ARV-in-ik ARP-part)

eighth 

arviniq pingajuat (ARV-in-ik peen-GA-joo-at)

ninth 

qulingiluaat (Northern), qulaaluaat (Southern) (kwoo-LEENG-eel-yoo-art, KWOO-lar-loo-art)

tenth 

qulingat (kwoo-LEENG-at)

eleventh 

aqqarnat (ak-KAR-nat)

twelth 

aqqaneq aappaat (AK-kan-ek ARP-part)

Numbers over 12th are Danish loan-numerals such as tretteniat is 13th and tyviat is 20th.

Time

Clock time

Duration

North Avannaq / South Kujataa / East Kangia / West Kitaa

Days

Months

Januar - Januaari Februar - Februaari Marts - Marsi April - Apriili Maj - Maaji Juni - Juuni Juli - Juuli August - Aggusti September - Septembari Oktober - Oktobari November - Novembari December - Decembari

Writing time and date

Transportation

Bus and train

Directions

Taxi

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

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Greenlandic

Wikipedia

English

Adjective

Greenlandic (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.

Translations

Proper noun

Greenlandic

1. The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.

Translations

Synonyms

• Kalaallisut

See also

• Inuktitut

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Greenlandic, kal

Anagrams

• Anagrams of acdeegilnnr
• calendering

From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Greenlandic alphabet
3. Introducing yourself
4. Basic grammar
5. Vocabulary

See also

• The Wikipedia article about the Greenlandic Language
• The Greenlandic language edition of Wikibooks.
• The Greenlandic language edition of Wikipedia.