Kalaallit

Kalaallit
Bishop Sofie Petersen,
first Inuit Lutheran bishop
Total population
57,777 (2023 est)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Greenland
Languages
Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) and Danish[1][2]
Religion
Inuit religion, Evangelical Lutheranism
Related ethnic groups
Greenlandic Inuit, Inuit

Kalaallit are a Greenlandic Inuit ethnic group, being the largest group in Greenland, concentrated in the west. It is also a contemporary term in the Greenlandic language for the Indigenous of Greenland (Greenlandic Kalaallit Nunaat).[3] The Kalaallit (singular: Kalaaleq[4]) are a part of the Arctic Inuit. The language spoken by Inuit in Greenland is known as Kalaallisut, known in English as Greenlandic.

  1. ^ a b "Greenland". The World Factbook (2024 ed.). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  2. ^ "Inuktitut, Greenlandic."[dead link] Ethnologue. Retrieved 6 Aug 2012.
  3. ^ Hessel, 8
  4. ^ Store, P; Clarkson, Iain, eds. (1992). Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings of the Working. Darmstadt: De Gruyter. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-484-30359-1.

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