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Language Comparison: Kalaallisut vs Minang
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Aspect | Kalaallisut | Minang |
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Family | Eskimo-Aleut | Austronesian |
Speakers | Approximately 50,000 | Approximately 6.5 million |
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 | A Malayic language spoken primarily by the Minangkabau people, known for its distinct verbal and nominal affixes and rich oral traditions |
Countries | Greenland | Indonesia (primarily in West Sumatra), Malaysia (in Negeri Sembilan) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script, previously written in Arabic script (Jawi) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses complex affixation and suffixation for grammatical relationships | No, uses affixes for verb conjugation and noun derivation |
Derived From | Inuit languages, with influences from Danish | Malayic languages, with influences from Sanskrit, Arabic, and Dutch |
Loanwords | From Danish, English, and other European languages | From Sanskrit, Arabic, Dutch, and Indonesian |
Dialects | Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) is the standard dialect, alongside Tunumiit (East Greenlandic) and Inuktun (Northern Greenlandic) | Includes Padang, Pariaman, Agam, and other regional dialects |
Alphabets | A, B, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, ʁ, ĸ | 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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