🇬🇱 What Language Do They Speak in Greenland?
The short answer
Greenland's official language is Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), an Inuit language of magnificently long words — single terms can translate whole English sentences. Danish remains everywhere in education, administration and daily life, and most Greenlanders are bilingual.
Worth knowing
- ●Greenlandic is polysynthetic: 'Nalunaarasuartaatilioqateeraliorfinnialikkersaatiginialikkersaatilillaranatagoorunarsuarooq' is a (famous, extreme) single word
- ●Danish is compulsory in school; university studies mostly happen in Danish or in Denmark
- ●Kalaallisut became the sole official language in 2009 — a rare Indigenous-language success story
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