Organizational placement

Oqaasileriffik is a secretariat for language under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Church.

Oqaasileriffik has the task of working within the framework of the existing laws on the Greenlandic language.

Workspaces

Oqaasileriffik is the secretariat for Parliament committees for language questions, as pt. is:

• Oqaasiliortut / The Greenland Language Council
• Nunat Aqqinik Aalajangiisartut / The Greenland Place Names Committee

The tasks in the field of personal names are from 2014 located in Oqaasiliortut, which was previously carried out by Inuit Aqqinik Akuersisartut / The Committee for Personal Names.

In addition to the secretarial functions of the councils and committees instituted by Inatsisartut and Naalakkersuisut, Oqaasileriffik develops Greenlandic language technology tools.

You can read about Greenlandic personal names and Oqaaserpassualeriffik – the division of Language Technology here:

• personal names
• language technology

We would like to point out that Oqaasileriffik is not a translation agency.