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Language Comparison: Kalaallisut vs Ilocano
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Aspect | Kalaallisut | Ilocano |
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Family | Eskimo-Aleut | Austronesian |
Speakers | Approximately 50,000 | Approximately 10 million |
Features | The official Greenlandic dialect of the Inuit language, known for its polysynthetic nature, where a single word can express complex ideas or entire sentences | Widely spoken in the northern regions of the Philippines, particularly in the Ilocos Region and parts of the Cordillera Administrative Region |
Countries | Greenland | Philippines |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses complex affixation and suffixation for grammatical relationships | No, uses prepositions and verb focus similar to other Philippine languages |
Derived From | Inuit languages, with influences from Danish | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, part of the Austronesian language family |
Loanwords | From Danish, English, and other European languages | From Spanish, English, and other Philippine languages |
Dialects | Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) is the standard dialect, alongside Tunumiit (East Greenlandic) and Inuktun (Northern Greenlandic) | Includes Northern Ilocano (spoken in Ilocos Norte), Southern Ilocano (spoken in Ilocos Sur), and others |
Alphabets | A, B, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Κ, ΔΈ | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Γ, Ng, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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