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Language Comparison: Kalaallisut vs Madurese
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Aspect | Kalaallisut | Madurese |
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Family | Eskimo-Aleut | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 50,000 | Approximately 13.5 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 | A language with distinct phonetic features, such as a reduced vowel inventory and a preference for glottal stops; it exhibits a high degree of mutual unintelligibility with Javanese despite geographic proximity. |
Countries | Greenland | Indonesia (primarily on Madura Island and in parts of East Java, including Surabaya and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (modern use), previously Javanese and Pegon scripts (Arabic-derived script) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses complex affixation and suffixation for grammatical relationships | No, uses prepositions and affixes to mark relationships |
Derived From | Inuit languages, with influences from Danish | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Danish, English, and other European languages | From Javanese, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Dutch |
Dialects | Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) is the standard dialect, alongside Tunumiit (East Greenlandic) and Inuktun (Northern Greenlandic) | Includes Bangkalan, Sumenep, and Pamekasan dialects, with significant lexical and phonological differences |
Alphabets | A, B, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, ʁ, ĸ | A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y, Z |
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