Greeting Kalaallisut

Greetings to Kalaallit Nunaat and their language Kalaallisut.

>>>Self Government Day is being celebrated on the Greenland National Day on 21 June and it will start at the Colony Harbour at 8.00 am. To mark the occasion, cannon will salute the Royal guests, as well as the foreign guests and the introduction of Self Government. Premier Kuupik Kleist will hold a speech and the Nuuk choir will sing one of Greenland’s national musical pearls, ”Nuna Asiilasooq”.<<<

http://www.nanoq.gl/

http://kl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaallit_Nunaat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaallisut

Will Greenlandic be made sole official language, or will Danish remain until full independence?

The Government site is in Kalaallisut, Danish and English. Pragmatic, I say.

http://www.nanoq.gl/

>> Will Greenlandic be made sole official language, or will Danish remain until full independence? <<

There are no plans for Independence. However Danish will soon no longer be an official language, but it will be a very important second language.

<<However Danish will soon no longer be an official language, but it will be a very important second language. >>


What I don't get is why learn Danish? Why not just cut straight to English and communicate with the Danes in English? After all, almost all Danes speak English anyway. What's the point in learning a useless second language when you can have English in common, not only with the Danes but with the rest of the world also?

Because there's a large Danish-speaking minority. And Danish links Greenland to Scandinavia, which has influenced it over the years.