An old sign in Nuuk reading merĸ︎anik paorĸ︎inigtarfik and kûk (in Greenlandic), and børnehave (“kindergarten” in Danish) probably from the late 1980s, but possible later. The writing uses the Greenlandic letter kra (“ĸ︎”), introduced in Samuel Kleinschmidt’s 1851 orthography,Kleinschmidt, 1851. since 1973 officially replaced by the letter “q”.Petersen, 1997.
Title
merĸ︎anik paorĸ︎inigtarfik, kûk, børnehave
Region
Published
1980s
Literature
Kleinschmidt, S.P. (1851). Grammatik der grönländischen Sprache [Grammar of the Greenlandic language]. Berlin.
Petersen, R. (1997). Det grønlandske sprog. In A. Karker, B. Lindgren, & S. Løland (Eds.), Nordens sprog (p. 198). Novus.
