Greenlandic only, suggests Siumut Party

Greenlandic should be only language we use, and only the Greenlandic language should be used in city and community governments, by the home rule government and in the legislative assembly: that was the proposal made by the Siumut Party’s Lars Emil Johansen last month in Greenland’s legislative assembly.

Johansen said this proposal should not be seen as an unfriendly plan.

“When people from other countries move to Denmark, the society requires them to speak Danish. If you cannot speak Danish, then you don’t have opportunities. In Greenland, we are not used to defending the Greenlandic language, but I am ready to now, on behalf of the Siumut Party,” he said.

Some of the MLAs in Greenland’s opposition Demokrates Party are Danish-speaking and cannot speak Greenlandic.