Greenlandic Inuit
kalaallit | |
|---|---|
An Inuit man with a sled and a dog sled looks at the American radar station at the Air Force base. Greenland, 1966 | |
| Total population | |
| c. 70,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Greenland | 51,349[1] |
| Denmark | 16,470[2] |
| United States | 352[3] |
| Norway | 293[4] |
| Faroe Islands | 163[5] |
| Iceland | 65[6] |
| Canada | 55[7] |
| Netherlands | 14[8] |
| Languages | |
| Religion | |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Inuit | |
The Greenlandic Inuit[a] or sometimes simply the Greenlandic[b] are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to Greenland, where they constitute the largest ethnic population.[12] They share a common ancestry, culture, and history; and natively speak the Greenlandic language. As Greenland is a territory within the Danish Realm, citizens of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and of the European Union.
Approximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57,695 is Greenlandic Inuit, or 51,349 people as of 2012.[9] Ethnographically, they consist of three major groups:
- the Kalaallit of west Greenland, who speak Kalaallisut
- the Tunumiit of Tunu (east Greenland), who speak Tunumiit oraasiat ("East Greenlandic")
- the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun ("Polar Inuit")
Historically, Kalaallit referred specifically to the people of Western Greenland. Northern Greenlanders call themselves Avanersuarmiut or Inughuit, and Eastern Greenlanders call themselves Tunumiit, respectively.[13]
Most Greenlanders are bilingual speakers of Kalaallisut and Danish and most trace their lineage to the first Inuit that came to Greenland. The vast majority of ethnic Greenlanders reside in Greenland or elsewhere in the Danish Realm, primarily Denmark proper (approximately 20,000 Greenlanders reside in Denmark proper). A small minority reside in other countries, mostly elsewhere in Scandinavia and North America. There are though a number of Greenlanders and Greenlandic families who today are multiracial, mostly due to marriages between Greenlanders and Danes as well as other Europeans.
- ^ "Grønlands Statistik". Stat.gl. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ^ "Statistikbanken". Statistics Denmark. 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Foreign born, by sex and country background". Statistisk centralbyrå - Statistics Norway. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ "IB01040 Population by birth country, sex and age, 1st January (1985-2016)". Hagstova Føroya - Statistics Faroe Islands. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ "Population by country of birth, sex and age 1 January 1998-2015". Hagstofa Íslands - Statistics Iceland. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ "Immigrant population by place of birth, period of immigration, 2016 counts, both sexes, age (total), Canada, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ "Population; sex, age, migration background and generation, 1 January". Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ a b c "Greenland." Archived 2020-05-09 at the Wayback Machine CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 6 Aug 2012.
- ^ "Inuktitut, Greenlandic." Ethnologue. Retrieved 6 Aug 2012.
- ^ Lawrence C. Hamilton and Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, "Population, Sex Ratios and Development in Greenland", Arctic 63, no. 1 (2010): 43–52.
- ^ "The Indigenous World 2023: Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)". 24 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2024. at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- ^ Baldacchino, Godfrey. "Extreme tourism: lessons from the world's cold water islands", Elsevier Science, 2006: 101. (retrieved through Google Books) ISBN 978-0-08-044656-1.
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