The Inuit are descended from the Thule people, who settled Greenland in between AD 12. More unofficially, a Greenlander is often perceived as a person who has a cultural (not least linguistic) affiliation with Greenland and even has an identity of being a Greenlander.Īs for Danish citizens and by persons with a special connection to Greenland, there are no official statistics for how many persons of Greenlandic origin reside abroad.However, there are no official statistics on how many Greenlanders live outside Greenland and abroad. At the beginning of 2020, there were 50,189 people born in Greenland. Nationals with connections to Greenland as nation (also called persons specially connected to Greenland).At the beginning of 2020, there were 56,081 inhabitants in Greenland. all with permanent legal residence in Greenland. The word Greenlander is used in several different meanings: There are several ways to define what a Greenlander is, and the meaning has also changed over time, just as today it can have both an inclusive and exclusive meaning. The Inuk singer and songwriter from Greenland, Nive Nielsen, received in 2012 The Crown Prince Couple's Stardust Prize. Greenlanders are believed to be descendants of the Thule culture. Some individuals of Danish heritage who were born or grew up in Greenland may also self-identify as Greenlandic or as ‘Greenland Danes’.
There are, though, a number of Greenlanders and Greenlandic families who today are multi-ethnic, mostly due to marriages between Greenlanders and Danish colonists as well as other Europeans. A small minority reside in other countries, mostly elsewhere in the Nordic countries and North America. The vast majority of ethnic Greenlanders reside in Greenland or elsewhere in the Realm of Denmark, primarily Denmark proper (approximately 20,000 Greenlanders reside in Denmark proper). Today, most Greenlanders are bilingual speakers of Kalaallisut and Danish and most trace their lineage to the first Inuit that came to Greenland.
Northern Greenlanders call themselves Avanersuarmiut or Inughuit, and Eastern Greenlanders call themselves Tunumiit, respectively. Historically, Kalaallit referred specifically to the people of Western Greenland. the Inughuit of north Greenland, who speak Inuktun ("Polar Inuit").the Tunumiit of Tunu (east Greenland), who speak Tunumiit oraasiat ("East Greenlandic").the Kalaallit of west Greenland, who speak Kalaallisut.Ethnographically, they consist of three major groups: Most speak Greenlandic (Western Greenlandic, Kalaallisut) and consider themselves ethnically Inuit.Īpproximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57,695 is Greenlandic Inuit, or 51,349 people as of 2012. The Greenlandic Inuit are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland. Nationals of Greenland are citizens of Denmark and are overseas countries and territories (OCT) nationals this also means that Greenlanders are EU citizens, due to Greenland's associated relationship to the European Union. The indigenous people of Greenland, or the Greenlandic Inuit, have indigenous status in the Kingdom of Denmark.
persons whose parents were born in Greenland. More controversial is a more recent use of the word in the sense persons of Greenlandic origin, i.e. However, the term can in different contexts be delimited more precisely in different ways: as the inhabitants of Greenland, as nationals of Greenland or more broadly as persons who feel a cultural affiliation in a broad sense to Greenland. For most Greenlanders, many of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Greenlandic. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. Greenlanders ( Greenlandic: Kalaallit / Tunumiit / Inughuit Danish: Grønlændere) are people identified with Greenland or the indigenous people, the Greenlandic Inuit ( Grøndlansk Inuit Kalaallit, Inughuit, or Tunumiit).
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