The First European Dictionary of an Inuit Language Was Compiled by a Lutheran Pastor Who Had Sailed to Find Vikings
Hans Egede arrived in Greenland in 1721 expecting to find the lost Norse community. He found Inuit. Over the following fourteen years he learned the local Kalaallisut language well enough to compile the first European dictionary and grammar of any Inuit language — published in 1750 by his son Paul.
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