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The Greenland Language Council (http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl) Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit); Danish: Grønland) is a self-governed Danish territory and an Arctic island nation located in North America with shores on the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. ... The Kalaallisut language is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland and closely related to Canadian languages like Inuktitut. ... Danish is one of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. ...

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Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1732 words)
	The Atlantic Ocean borders Greenland's southeast; the Greenland Sea is to the east; the Arctic Ocean is to the north; and Baffin Bay is to the west.
	All towns and settlements of Greenland are situated along the ice-free coast, with the population being concentrated along the Western coast.
	English, Danish and Greenlandic are all spoken by the population.

Greenland - MSN Encarta (674 words)
	Greenland (Greenlandic Kalaallit Nunaat; Danish Grønland), island which is an internally self-governing part of Denmark, situated between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
	Greenland lies mostly north of the Arctic Circle and is separated from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, on the west, primarily by Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, and from Iceland, on the east, by the Denmark Strait.
	Greenland was formerly the world's main source of natural cryolite, a mineral used in the manufacture of aluminum, but by the late 1980s, reserves were exhausted.

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