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Pipaluk
Pipaluk is a Greenlandic Inuit feminine given name meaning "sweet little thing". It was the second most popular given name for girls in Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ... during the past decade and was the fifth most popular name for girls born in Greenland between 1990 and 1999. In the period 1940–1950 the name was used in Denmark for a sort of hood, often red, worn by little girls during wintertime. Persons * Pipaluk Freuchen (1918–1999), writer * Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen (born 1984), politician Notes {{reflist Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipaluk Freuchen
Pipaluk Freuchen (15 March 1918 – 8 April 1999) was a Danish-Greenlandic-Swedish writer, best known for her children's book ''Ivik, den faderløse,'' which is also known by its English title ''Eskimo Boy.'' She was also the daughter of the explorer Peter Freuchen. Early life Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Freuchen was born on 15 March 1918 in Uummannaq, Greenland. Her father was the Danish Arctic explorer and adventurer, Peter Freuchen; her mother, Navarana Mequpaluk, a Greenlandic Inuit woman, whom he married in 1911. They had two children, Mequsaq (born 1915) and Pipaluk. In a 1945 article in the Swedish-American newspaper ''Vestkusten'', Freuchen recalled living a traditional Inuit lifestyle. In 1919 the family moved to Denmark, but returned to Greenland two years later, leaving Freuchen with her father's parents in Denmark. Her mother died in 1921 from influenza. Freuchen was brought up as part of the Lauridsen family after her father married Magdalene Lauridsen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen
Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen (born 13 April 1984) is a Greenlandic politician ( Inuit Ataqatigiit). Life and career Pipaluk Lynge-Rasmussen was born on 13 April 1984 in Nuuk. She graduated from Aasiaat Gymnasium in 2005. She then studied cultural and social history. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2011 and her candidate's degree in 2015. She then worked for a year as a teacher at a Gymnasium in Nuuk. From 2016 to 2018, she was a consultant at the Municipality of Sermersooq. From 2020 to 2021, she worked as a TV and radio presenter in numerous children's television and radio programs. She has two children with her husband. Political career Lynge-Rasmussen ran in the 2013 local elections and came in third place of the Inuit Ataqatigiit in the municipality of Sermersooq. She also ran in the 2014 general election but received only 20 votes. She ran again in the 2017 local elections but was not elected. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, she came in fourth place among the Inuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenlandic Language
Greenlandic ( kl, kalaallisut, link=no ; da, grønlandsk ) is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about 56,000 speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut. It is the most widely spoken Eskimo–Aleut language. Greenlandic has been the sole official language of the Greenlandic autonomous territory since June 2009, which is a move by the Naalakkersuisut, the government of Greenland, to strengthen the language in its competition with the colonial language, Danish. The main variety is Kalaallisut, or West Greenlandic. The second variety is Tunumiit oraasiat, or East Greenlandic. The language of the Thule Inuit of Greenland, Inuktun or Polar Eskimo, is a recent arrival and a dialect of Inuktitut. Greenlandic is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and suffixes. The language's morphosyntactic alignment is ergative, treating both the argument (subject) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is the world's largest island. It is one of three constituent countries that form the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of these countries are all citizens of Denmark and the European Union. Greenland's capital is Nuuk. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers) for more than a millennium, beginning in 986.The Fate of Greenland's Vikings , by Dale Mackenzie Brown, ''Archaeological Institute of America'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
