Aluu!
say it: “ah-LOO”
Greenlandic
in its own words: kalaallisut
- Speakers
- 57 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Denmark, Greenland
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Greenland, Denmark (regional)
Fun fact
Greenlandic is polysynthetic: many suffixes attach to one root, so a single word can express a whole English sentence. Since 2009 it has been Greenland's sole official language.