Science+Business Media B.V. pp.413-426. Two Greenlandic Sea Ice Lists and Some Considerations Regarding Inuit Sea Ice Terms
The following two lists of the Greenlandic Inuit sea ice terms are the result of field research in Greenland, and they do not pretend in any way to be exhaustive. The first list relates to the language of west Greenland, spoken by approximately 52,000 people, and recognized since 1979 as the officia...
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| Summary: | The following two lists of the Greenlandic Inuit sea ice terms are the result of field research in Greenland, and they do not pretend in any way to be exhaustive. The first list relates to the language of west Greenland, spoken by approximately 52,000 people, and recognized since 1979 as the official language of Greenland under the name of Kalaallisut (Berthelsen et al. 2004, Sadock 2003). The version presented here was recorded in the community of Qeqertaq in the Disko Bay area of northwest Greenland (see Taverniers in SIKU:Knowing Our ice) and it reflects what is called the “northwest Greenlandic ” subdialect of the Kalaallisut language (Dorais 2003:136). The second list presents the terms of the language of east Greenland, or tunumiisut, spoken by approximately 3,500 people in the municipalities of Ammassalik and |
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