A Greenlandic Inuit man

The Inuit of Greenland refer to themselves as " Greenlanders " and speak the Greenlandic language.

Eastern Greenlandic, at the opposite end of the Inuit range has had significant word replacement due to a unique form of ritual name avoidance.

Greenlandic Inuit people make up 89 % of Greenland's population.

Greenlandic ( East Inuit language ), Danish, and English.

In addition, an estimated 7, 000 Greenlandic Inuit live in European Denmark, the largest group outside of Canada and Greenland.

Greenlandic Inuit whalers catch around 175 whales per year, making them the third largest hunt in the world after Japan and Norway, though their take is small compared to those nations, who annually averaged around 730 and 590 whales respectively in 1998 – 2007.

*** Greenlandic Inuit

The base subsequently came under Greenlandic Home Rule and was renamed using the Kalaallisut dialect of the West Greenland Inuit.

ULO releases both Greenlandic rock bands like Sume, pop singers like Rasmus Lyberth and hip hop music crews like Nuuk Posse as well as Inuit folk music.

Greenlandic Inuit folk songs are performed to tell stories, play games and tease or charm others.

Greenlandic Inuit music is largely based around singing and drums, the latter being generally reserved for large celebrations and other gatherings.

Though there is much folk vocal music, there is no Inuit purely instrumental tradition with no accompaniment by singing or dancing Greenlandic drums are mostly frame drums made of animal skin stretched over a wooden frame and decorated with decorative and symbolic motifs by the drummer.

Drum dances are an important element of Greenlandic Inuit cultural cohesion, and function as personal expression, pure entertainment and social sanction.

In addition to the drum dance and game songs, Greenlandic Inuit have a tradition of piseq ( piserk, personal song ) songs.

The Greenlandic ethnonym Kalaalleq may be based on the Norse Skræling ( the combination skr is unknown in the Inuit language ) or on the Norse klæði ( meaning cloth ).

Greenlandic or Greenlandic Inuit language is an Eskimo – Aleut language spoken by about 57, 000 Greenlandic Inuit people in Greenland.

Of the approximately 48, 000 inhabitants of the Faroe Islands ( 16, 921 private households ( 2004 )), 98 % are Danish realm citizens, meaning Faroese, Danish, or Greenlandic.

Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the foreign relations of Greenland are handled in cooperation with the Danish government and Greenlandic home rule authority.

Most courses are taught in Danish and a few in Greenlandic.

Greenlandic white-tailed eagles are, on evolutionary time scales, a relatively recently founded population that has not yet accumulated a lot of unique genetic characteristics.

Greenlandic drum dances are, like the relatives found in Eastern and Central Canada, based around a single dancer who composes songs sung by his family while he dances, usually in a qaggi, a snow-house built just for community events such as the drum dance.

Their lyrics are more offensive and provocative than those of Nuuk Posse, criticizing the Greenlandic community for abandoning and neglecting their kids.

Summertime festivals called aussivik have become an important part of modern Greenlandic culture, and are based on an older custom that was revived in the 20th century along with drum dances and other elements.

Other dialects are East Greenlandic ( Tunumiisut ) and the Thule dialect Inuktun or Polar Eskimo.

Greenlandic is notable for its lack of a system of grammatical tense, as temporal relations are normally expressed through context, through the use of temporal particles such as " yesterday " or " now " or sometimes through the use of derivational suffixes or the combination of affixes with aspectual meanings with the semantic aktionsart of different verbs.

The fact that Greenlandic has become the only language used in primary schooling has meant that today monolingual Danish-speaking parents in Greenland are raising children bilingual in Danish and Greenlandic.

As the Western Greenlandic standard has become dominant, a UNESCO report has labelled the other dialects as endangered, and measures are now being considered to protect the Eastern Greenlandic dialect.

Kalaallisut and the other Greenlandic dialects belong to the Eskimo – Aleut family and are closely related to the Inuit languages of Canada and Alaska.

The lyrics translated from the Greenlandic language into English prose are:

The culture of Greenland has much in common with Greenlandic Inuit tradition, as the majority of people are descended from Inuit.

Greenlandic people are mostly of Inuit origin ; in fact, 89 % of Greenland's population is Inuit.

Kalaallit are a Greenlandic Inuit people.

Birds are represented by Barnacle Goose, pink-footed goose, snow goose, whooper swan, King Eider, Common Eider, long-tailed duck, Brunnich's guillemot, black guillemot, little auk, puffin, fulmar, herring gull, glaucous gull, Great Black-backed Gull, kittiwake, Arctic tern, red-throated diver, great Northern Diver, red-breasted merganser, ptarmigan, raven, snowy owl, Greenlandic gyrfalcon, etc.

Currently there are about 150 total civilian and military employees employed by the command, from both Danish and Greenlandic decent.

The modest student population is due in part to the government's policy allowing students a free university education anywhere in Europe or North America, with most Greenlandic students going to school in Denmark.

The singer Rasmus Lyberth did the most to change Greenlandic music by performing for simple entertainment rather than functionality ; indeed, he took part in the Danish preselection for the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, performing in Greenlandic.

Canada claims Hans Island as part of Qikiqtaaluk, while Denmark considers it to be part of the Greenlandic municipality of Qaasuitsup.

Found primarily in Canadian Arctic and Greenlandic waters, rarely south of 65 ° N latitude, the narwhal is a uniquely specialized Arctic predator.

A database of information about the conference and its services was hosted by Teleglobe Canada in Toronto on their Novatex system, with the information translated into English, French, Danish, Inuktitut, Greenlandic, Labradorian, Inupiag, Yupik and Western Arctic.

Between 27 and 29 May 2008, the town was the site of the Arctic Ocean Conference hosted by Per Stig Møller, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Hans Enoksen, the Greenlandic Prime Minister.

Hendrik was a Greenlandic Arctic traveller and translator who worked on the American and British Arctic expeditions of Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Francis Hall, Isaac Israel Hayes and George Strong Nares, from 1853 to 1876.

The modern composer Mads Lumholdt ( also member of the orchestra Northern Voices, singer in the orchestra Nowhereland and in No Offence, a vocal band ) has become well-known, and his work Shaman, which debuted at the 2004-5 Etoiles Polaires Arctic Culture Festival was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize for its fusion of traditional Greenlandic music with modern styles and technology.

* Royal Arctic Line, a Greenlandic cargo company

The Arctic Technology Centre, commonly called Artek, was formally established in late summer 2000 to teach and provide in-service training for Greenlandic and Danish students and businessmen in Arctic technology.

* It's the commonly used name for Arctic Technology Centre, established in late summer 2000 to teach and provide in-service training for Greenlandic and Danish students and businessmen in Arctic technology.

Hans Hendrik, also known as Hans Christian, native name Suersaq ( c. 1834 – 11 August 1889 ), was a Greenlandic Arctic traveller and interpreter, born in the southern settlement of Fiskernaes.