Greenlandic Inuit

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rdf:langString Greenlanders

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rdf:langString Greenlanders

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rdf:langString Greenland: 51,349

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rdf:langString Denmark

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rdf:langString Greenland

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rdf:langString other Inuit, Aleut and Yupik peoples

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rdf:langString Predominantly Lutheran

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rdf:langString Greenlanders (Greenlandic: Kalaallit / Tunumiit / Inughuit; Danish: Grønlændere) are people identified with Greenland or the indigenous people, the Greenlandic Inuit (Grønlansk Inuit; Kalaallit, Inughuit, and Tunumiit). This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Greenlanders, many of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Greenlandic. However, the term can in different contexts be delimited more precisely in different ways: as the inhabitants of Greenland, as nationals of Greenland or more broadly as persons who feel a cultural affiliation in a broad sense to Greenland. More controversial is a more recent use of the word in the sense persons of Greenlandic origin, i.e. persons whose parents were born in Greenland. The indigenous people of Greenland, or the Greenlandic Inuit, have indigenous status in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nationals of Greenland are citizens of Denmark and are overseas countries and territories (OCT) nationals; this also means that Greenlanders are EU citizens, due to Greenland's associated relationship to the European Union. The Greenlandic Inuit are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. Most speak Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), and consider themselves ethnically Inuit. Approximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57,695 is Greenlandic Inuit, or 51,349 people as of 2012. 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. Today, most Greenlanders are bilingual speakers of Kalaallisut and Danish and most trace their lineage to the first Inuit, the Thule culture, that came to Greenland around 1300 AD. The vast majority of ethnic Greenlanders reside in Greenland or elsewhere in the Realm of Denmark, primarily Denmark proper (approximately 20,000 Greenlanders reside in Denmark proper). A small minority reside in other countries, mostly elsewhere in the Nordic countries and North America. There are, though, a large number of Greenlanders and Greenlandic families who today are multi-ethnic, mostly due to marriages between Greenlanders and Danes as well as other Europeans. Some individuals of Danish heritage who were born or grew up in Greenland may also self-identify as Greenlandic or as ‘Greenland Danes’.