Inughuit

The Inughuit ( other spellings: Innughuit, Innugguit ) are an ethnic group of nearly 800 people in north- western Greenland in the region of Qaanaaq (Eng. " Thule "). The home of Inughuit says in the Greenlandic language " Avanersuaq " (Eng. "Land in the remote north" ), it is between 76 ° and 79 ° north latitude, that is more than 1,000 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. The traditional name of Inughuit in German is " Polar Eskimo " or " Polar Inuit ". It is by far the most northerly surviving indigenous population of the world.

Demographics

Before 1880 the number of Polar Inuit was estimated at 100 to 200, in 1900 to about 250 in 1980 was one of the ethnic group of about 700 people Inughuit, 2010 there were almost 800

Language

Inuktun, a northern dialect of Greenland without its own font; it is one of the Eskimo - Aleut languages. In school, Inughuit usually learn spoken and written West Greenlandic and Danish.

Culture

The Indigenous people live mainly by hunting seals, walruses, polar bears and whales, also partly from fishing or fishing and bird -catcher; it undergoes this global warming as rapidly progressive.