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Johannes Balle’s Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Wordlist

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This work examines the Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) wordlist gathered by Johannes Balle (1889–1965) sometime in the first half of the 20th century.
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The work examines the Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) wordlist gathered by Johannes Balle (1889–1965) sometime in the first half of the 20th century. This little-known vocabulary, which includes equivalents in Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) and translations into Danish, offers valuable data from a time when information on Greenlandic dialects was scarce and difficult to obtain.
The present publication is a pioneering study. There is no previous scholarship on the wordlist, which exists in two copies held at the Royal Danish Library and the Danish Arctic Institute (Arktisk Institute). The author describes the historical context of Johannes Balle’s life and the peculiarities of the linguistic data as presented in the wordlist. The main part of the study is the Tunumiisut wordlist re-arranged according to English keywords for historical and comparative purposes. Extensive indices arranged in the more traditional alphabetical order allow the reader to navigate easily through Tunumiisut, Kalaallisut, Proto-Inuit-Yupik and Proto-Inuit reconstructions, all of them cross-referenced with the English keywords.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 220
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Imprint: Jagiellonian University Press
Publication Date: 06 January 2026
Trim Size: 9.61 X 6.69 in
ISBN: 9788323354833
Format: Paperback
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REFERENCE / Word Lists, LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Dictionaries
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente (born 1982) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Translation Studies and Hungarian Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His main interests lie in historical linguistics, language contact and typology. He holds a PhD degree in Linguistics (2012) from the University of the Basque Country (Spain).

List of figures 7

Abbreviations (frequently used in the book) 9

Introduction 11

Johannes Balle 15

J. Balle’s wordlist from the perspective of Greenlandic philology 19

The wordlist 25

Formal considerations 25

J. Balle’s translations and English keywords 27

Cultural and linguistic remarks 29

Forms from Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) 30

Acknowledgments 33

References 35

I Keywords and Etymology 47

II Tunumiisut(–Danish–Keyword) 119

III Kalaallisut(–Danish–Keyword) 155

IV Proto-Inuit-Yupik and Proto-Inuit reconstructions 193

V English keywords 211

VI Words of unclear origin, loanwords, and cultural terms [by keywords] 219