Greenland
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Danish
[dan] Users: 6,200 in Greenland (2014 World Factbook). Status: 1 (National). Statutory national working language (1978, Home Rule Act No. 577, Article 9(2)). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Danish-Riksmal, Danish.
Danish Sign Language
[dsl] Scattered. Users: 60 in Greenland (2020 A. Bickford). Estimated based on 0.1% of the general population. Status: 6a* (Vigorous). Alternate Names: DTS, Dansk tegnsprog. Classification: Sign language, Deaf community sign language.
Greenlandic
[kal] Widespread. Users: 50,000 in Greenland (2007 I. Larsen). 3,000 East Greenlandic, 44,000 West Greenlandic, 800 North Greenlandic. Total users in all countries: 57,000. Status: 1 (National). Statutory national language (1978, Home Rule Act No. 577 of 29 November, Article 9.1). Alternate Names: Greenlandic Inuktitut, Grønlandsk. Autonym: Kalaallisut. Classification: Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Inuit-Inupiaq.