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Language Comparison: Kalaallisut vs Makassar
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Aspect | Kalaallisut | Makassar |
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Family | Eskimo-Aleut | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 50,000 | Approximately 2.1 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 | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. |
Countries | Greenland | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses complex affixation and suffixation for grammatical relationships | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Inuit languages, with influences from Danish | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Danish, English, and other European languages | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch |
Dialects | Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) is the standard dialect, alongside Tunumiit (East Greenlandic) and Inuktun (Northern Greenlandic) | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar |
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, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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