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ISO 639-3 · kalkal
unclassified

Greenlandic

Kalaallisut

Greenlandic is a language, spoken in Greenland. Wikidata counts 56,200 first-language speakers (2007). Wikidata describes it as “Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland”.

1 · NationalScandinavian Braille56,200
At a glance
ISO 639-3
kal
ISO 639-1
kl
Glottocode
gree1280
Family
unclassified
Centre point
64.00, -51.00
Wikipedia
104 language editions
56,200first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
3scripts
—levels in the tree
1EGIDS level

Facts

NameGreenlandic · Kalaallisut
Also calledGreenlandic Inuktitut, Kalaallisut, Greenlandic Inuit language, Kalaallisut language, Greenlandic Inuktitut language
L1 speakers56,200 (2007)
Written inGreenlandic alphabet, Kleinschmidt orthography, Scandinavian Braille
Official inGreenland,
Grammatical cases11 listed in Wikidata

Vitality

EGIDS 1 National1

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level
UNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this level
where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Also spoken in Greenland