What is the difference between greenlandish and kalaallisut?
greenlandish | kalaallisut | Synonyms |
Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, its people, or its language.
* 1986 , Lee M. Hollander, The Poetic Edda :
The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.
* 1875 , Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, Tales and traditions of the Eskimo :
* 1996 , Hans Goebl, Linguistique de contact :
Kalaallisut is a synonym of greenlandish.
As proper nouns the difference between greenlandish and kalaallisut
is that greenlandish is the official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet while Kalaallisut is name of the Greenlandic language (Inuit), spoken in Greenland.As an adjective Greenlandish
is of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, its people, or its language.greenlandish
English
Adjective
(-)- Intimately connected with the question of the date is that of the home of Eddic poetry. There is fair agreement about only two poems: "Atlamál," which is generally allowed to be of Greenlandish origin, and the "Prophecy of Grípir," which no doubt was composed by an Icelander of the twelfth century [...]
Synonyms
* (preferred ) Greenlandic * (language only ) KalaallisutProper noun
(en proper noun)- Taking it for granted that Greenlandish may be held to represent the Eskimo tongue in general, we shall endeavour to give an idea of its remarkable construction.
- The linguistic character of Faroese and Greenlandish are very different, Greenlandish being an Eskimo language whereas Faroese is a Nordic language with roots in Old Norwegian.