The Alphabets of Europe

Greenlandic
kalaallisut
Version 1.0
Alphabet:
A a (Á á, Â â, Ã ã), B b, C c, D d, E e (Ê ê), F f, G g, H h,
I i (Í í, Î î, Ĩ ĩ), J k, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ô ô), P p,
Q q (K‘ ), R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Û û, Ũ ũ), V v, [W w], X x,
Y y, Z z, [Æ æ], [Ø ø], [Å å]
Use of the letters in parentheses was abolished in a spelling reform in 1973.

Quotation marks: ›single‹, »double«

UCS ranges for the characters on this page:

0040-005A, 0060-007A, 00AB, 00BB, 00C1-00C3, 00C5-00C6, 00CA, OOCD-
OOCE, 00D4, 00D8, 00DA-00DB, 00E1-00E3, 00E5-00E6, 00EA, OOED-OOEE,
00F4, 00F8, 00FA-00FB, 0128-0129, 0138, 0168-0169, 2039-203A

Characters not found in the UCS:

K‘ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER KRA
Sources:
Grønlands sprognævn, in Icelandic Council for Standardization. 1992. Nordic
cultural requirements on information technology. Reykjavík: Staðlaráð
Íslands. ISBN 9979-9004-3-1
Petersen, Robert. 1990. “The Greenlandic language: its nature and situation”, in
Dirmid R. F. Collis, ed. Arctic languages: an awakening. Paris: Unesco.
ISBN 92-3-102661-5

Population 55,000 (Haarmann 1993)

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