FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'kleinsch'

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
   1. Name of requester: Michael Everson
   2. E-mail address of requester: everson&evertype.com
   3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: kleinsch
Description: Kleinschmidt orthography
Description: Allattaasitaamut
Prefix: kl
Prefix: kl-tunumiit
Comments: Orthography for Greenlandic designed by Samuel Kleinschmidt,
  used from 1851 to 1973.

   4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Greenlandic language text written following Samuel Kleinschmidt’s spelling system, which represents words morphophonemically.

   5. Reference to published description
      of the language (book or article):

Goldbach, I., & Winther‐Jensen, T. (1988). Greenland: Society and education. Comparative Education, 24(2), 257-266.

Jacobsen, B. (1987). A Preliminary Report on a Pilot Investigation of Greenlandic School Children’s Spelling Errors. Orthography and Phonology, 101-129.

Kleivan, I. (1979). Language and ethnic identity: language policy and debate in Greenland. Sociolinguistic studies in language contact: Methods and cases, 302, 117.

Kleivan, I. (1995). A new history of Greenlandic literature. Études/Inuit/Studies, 127-138.

Lybech, S. (2022). Appendix A: The old orthography. In An introduction to West Greenlandic. (2.3 ed., 325-334).

Nuttall, M. (1990). Greenlandic: political development of an Inuit language. Polar Record, 26(159), 331-333.

   6. Any other relevant information

The Language Secretariat of Greenland provides some information about the Kleinschmidt orthography. This is their converter from the Kleinschmidt system to the modern system: https://oqaasileriffik.gl/en/langtech/kleinschmidt/ Their index of personal names includes both the modern and older spellings: https://oqaasileriffik.gl/en/personal-names/search/?n&f%5Bl%5D=on

Allattaasitaamut is the word used to describe the old spelling system in Greenlandic by the language secretariat. (From https://oqaasileriffik.gl/oqaaserpassualerineq/kleinschmidt/ )