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Language Comparison: Kalaallisut vs English
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Aspect | Kalaallisut | English |
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Family | Eskimo-Aleut | Indo-European |
Speakers | Approximately 50,000 | Approximately 1.5 billion (including second-language speakers) |
Features | The official Greenlandic dialect of the Inuit language, known for its polysynthetic nature, where a single word can express complex ideas or entire sentences | Global lingua franca, originating from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England |
Countries | Greenland | United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many others |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses complex affixation and suffixation for grammatical relationships | No |
Derived From | Inuit languages, with influences from Danish | Old English, influenced by Old Norse and Norman French |
Loanwords | From Danish, English, and other European languages | From Latin, French, Norse, and many other languages |
Dialects | Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) is the standard dialect, alongside Tunumiit (East Greenlandic) and Inuktun (Northern Greenlandic) | Includes American English, British English, Australian English, Indian English, etc. |
Alphabets | A, B, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Κ, ΔΈ | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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