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West Greenlandic Pidgin is an extinct Greenlandic-based contact language once used between the Inuit of Greenland and European traders. The vocabulary is mostly Greenlandic. Although words from Germanic languages were incorporated over the course of contact with Europeans most of the words which are not Inuit come from other local trade languages. The pidgin has a vastly simplified grammar and sounds such as r and q that were unfamiliar to Europeans were lost.