Wikipedia Trails: From Greenlandic Language to

This week's reading had me wanting to do a lot of outside research.  I read the Eskimo Folk Tales Unit and it kept bringing up questions from when I did a homework assignment on the Greenlandic Language. I decided to review some of the facts about this language and found myself taking a little trail through the Wikipedia articles.  From the Greenlandic Language article, I became interested in what the difference was between Greenlandic and Greenlandic Inuit.  On this second page, I learned that Greenlandic Inuit is an ethnicity while Greenlandic and its dialects refer to the language.  After reading through this article, I learned that Danish is still highly spoken in the area.  I clicked on the Danish Realm link to learn more about the areas in the Kingdom of Denmark.  This kingdom includes Greenland, Denmark proper, and the Faroe Islands. As I read through this article, I discovered that while these countries are still in the Kingdom of Denmark, they have been granted self-government arrangements and the kingdom has little control over Greenland or the Farose Islands.  From this article, I clicked on the link to the Danish language article (surprise, the linguistics nerd picked another language article).  I really loved reading this article and learning more about another language derived from Old Norse.  I have been fascinated with Norse languages for a while now and I keep choosing them for my projects in my linguistics classes.
Image: Distribution of Inuit Language variants across the Arctic

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