West Greenlandic

Kalaallisut (lit. 'language of the Kalaallit'), also known as West Greenlandic (Danish: vestgrønlandsk), is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people).^[2] It was historically spoken in the southwestern part of Greenland, i.e. the region around Nuuk.

West Greenlandic
Kalaallisut, Kitaamiisut
Native to	West Greenland Denmark
Ethnicity	Kalaallit
Native speakers	(44,000–52,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language family	Eskaleut Eskimo Inuit Greenlandic West Greenlandic
Early forms	Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	kala1399
Inuit dialects. West Greenlandic in blue.
West Greenlandic is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Tunumiisut and Inuktun are the two other native languages of Greenland, spoken by a small minority of the population. Danish remains an important lingua franca in Greenland and used in many parts of public life, as well as being the main language spoken by Danes in Greenland.

An extinct mixed trade language known as West Greenlandic Pidgin was based on West Greenlandic.^[3]