Subject: [Ietf-languages] Language subtag registration form: Tunumiit

From: Leon Derczynski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:40:46 +0000

For the Tunumiit variant of Greenlandic

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
   1. Name of requester: Leon Strømberg-Derczynski
   2. E-mail address of requester: [email-masked]
   3. Record Requested:

      Type: variant
      Subtag: tunumiit
      Description: Tunumiisiut
      Description: East Greenlandic
      Description: Østgrønlandsk
      Prefix: kl
      Comments: Also known as Tunumiit oraasiat

   4. Intended meaning of the subtag: 
      Tunumiit oraasiat is a variety of Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) spoken by
      the Tunumiit people in East Greenland. Part of the variation lies in
      polysynthesis being constructed differently between Tunumiisiut and
      Kalaallisut. 

   5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
      Wikipedia page is here:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunumiit_dialect
      Present on Glottolog:
        https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tunu1234
      Mennecier, Philippe (1995). Le tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland
        oriental: description et analyse. Collection linguistique, 78 (in
        French). Société de linguistique de Paris, Peeters Publishers.
      Help in Learning Inuktitut - Tunumiit oraasiat: the East Greenlandic
        Inuit language. P. Robbé and L.-J. Dorais 1986. Québec, Université
        Laval. Collection Nordicana 49. 265p, soft cover. ISBN 2-920197-49-5.
        
   6. Any other relevant information:
     The English name and Danish name (the region in which the language
     is spoken being part of Denmark) are given as second and third
     descriptions.

Natural Language Processing, Department of Computer Science
IT University of Copenhagen  http://www.derczynski.com/itu/  +45 5157 4948