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Language Comparison: Kalaallisut vs Samoan
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Aspect | Kalaallisut | Samoan |
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Family | Eskimo-Aleut | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 50,000 | Approximately 500,000 |
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 Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa |
Countries | Greenland | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses complex affixation and suffixation for grammatical relationships | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Inuit languages, with influences from Danish | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Danish, English, and other European languages | From English and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) is the standard dialect, alongside Tunumiit (East Greenlandic) and Inuktun (Northern Greenlandic) | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands |
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, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ) |
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