Tunumiisut

*tunumiisut*
tunumiisut
Native to	East Greenland
Ethnicity	Tunumiit
Native speakers	(3,000–3,500 cited 1995)
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Inuit Greenlandic tunumiisut; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tunu1234
IETF	kl-tunumiit
	Map of the Inuit languages; Tunumiisut is grey.
	East Greenlandic is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Tunumiisut (lit. 'language of the Tunumiit'), also known as East Greenlandic (Danish: østgrønlandsk), is the language of the Tunumiit in East Greenland. It is generally categorised as a dialect of Greenlandic, but verges on being a distinct language. The largest town where it is the primary language is Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, with the island's name being derived from the West Greenlandic name of the town.

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