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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.
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Danish is widely spoken in Greenland, and an unknown portion of the native Greenlandic population has Danish as their first language.
In Kalaallisut ( Greenlandic ) for example, the ergative case is used to mark subjects of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns.
Greenland has, by law, only one service provider for telecommunications and internet, TELE Greenland, which is fully owned by the Greenlandic Home Rule government.
The state broadcaster is Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa ( Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation ) or KNR, which provides one television and one radio service nationwide.
Its local name in the Greenlandic language is Erfalasorput, which means " our flag ".
The term Aappalaartoq ( meaning " the red ") is also used for both the Greenlandic flag and the flag of Denmark.
In other languages, it is often called Greenlandic or some cognate term.
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.
Found primarily in Canadian Arctic and Greenlandic waters, rarely south of 65 ° N latitude, the narwhal is a uniquely specialized Arctic predator.
It is considered a separate letter in the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish alphabets, as well as in the North Frisian, Walloon, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Chamorro, Istro-Romanian, Lule Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, and Greenlandic alphabets.
Hans Enoksen ( born 7 August 1956 in Itilleq, Greenland ) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009.
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.
Hans Island ( Inuktitut / Greenlandic: Tartupaluk ; ; ) is a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring, long and wide, located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait — the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea.
Littleton Island ( Greenlandic: Pikiuleq ) is approximately from Greenland ’ s coast right in Smith Sound.
In Central Alaskan Yup ' ik and the Greenlandic language, ll stands for, and in Haida ( Bringhurst orthography ) it is glottalized.
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.
This traditional Greenlandic music is performed also today.
The Nordic describes his work as " seeking to allow the traditional Greenlandic culture to be communicated through contemporary cultural language in such a way that respect for the original culture is preserved on the one hand yet passed on to a broader, contemporary audience on the other hand ".
Forward ( Greenlandic: Siumut ) is a social-democratic political party in Greenland and a consultative member of the Socialist International.
It is led by Aleqa Hammond, member of the Greenlandic Parliament, who is the first woman ever to lead the party.
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 ).
The word is of Greenlandic origin and has been used in English since the 1870s.
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* Jens Rosing ( 1925 – 2008 ), a Greenlandic artist notable for designing the coat of arms of Greenland, numerous Greenlandic postage stamps, as well as illustrated children's books and water colours − was born in Ilulissat.
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This newspaper based in Nuuk later became very significant for the Greenlandic identity.
The Red-necked Grebe has two subspecies, the nominate subspecies P. g. grisegena in Europe and western Asia, and P. g. holboelii ( Holboell's Grebe, named for Danish explorer of Greenlandic birds Carl Peter Holbøll ) in North America and eastern Siberia.
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.
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.
Their lyrics are more offensive and provocative than those of Nuuk Posse, criticizing the Greenlandic community for abandoning and neglecting their kids.
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.
The name is derived from the Greenlandic Inuit word for reindeer ( tuttu ), and means " reindeer blood.
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.
He is also known for having named Greenlandic places by using lyrics from old folk songs.
In January 2006, a 150 animal limit was set for the most prized of all Greenlandic animals, the polar bear.
Inuit Ataqatigiit ( Greenlandic for " Community of the People ") is a leftist and separatist political party in Greenland.
* 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.
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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.
Some composers of European classical music have Greenlandic themes in their music, including Poul Rovsing Olsen and Adrian Vernon Fish whose output includes over fifty works inspired by Greenland, its terrain, icescapes and music.
The main dialect, Kalaallisut or West Greenlandic, has been the official language of the Greenlandic autonomous territory since June 2009 ; this is a move by the Greenlandic government to strengthen the language in its competition with the colonial language, Danish.
Before June 2009, Greenlandic shared its status as the official language in Greenland with Danish.
Making gains from the 2005 Greenlandic parliamentary election, it doubled its total number of seats in the Parliament from 7 to 14 seats – just two seats short of a majority – and nearly doubled its total vote from 22. 4 % to 43. 7 %.
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