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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark\u2019s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic \u2014 the Inuit language of the sparsely populated Arctic island \u2014 into Danish, highlighting strained relations within the Danish Realm. Aki-Matilda H\u00f8gh-Dam, from the social democratic Siumut party, is at the center of a debate about whether lawmakers from Greenland and the Faeroe Islands can speak in their own tongues before the Danish Parliament. The two semi-independent territories each hold two seats in the Folketing in Copenhagen. During a traditional debate day Thursday, where parties\u2019 political affairs spokespeople explain their party\u2019s line, H\u00f8gh-Dam gave an eight-minute speech in Greenlandic. She had beforehand distributed a translation of her speech to the… <\/p>\n

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark\u2019s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic \u2014 the Inuit language of the sparsely populated Arctic island \u2014 into Danish, highlighting strained relations within the Danish Realm. Aki-Matilda H\u00f8gh-Dam, from the social democratic Siumut party, is at the center of a debate about whether lawmakers from Greenland and the Faeroe Islands can speak in their own tongues before the Danish Parliament. The two semi-independent territories each hold two seats in the Folketing in Copenhagen. During a traditional debate day Thursday, where parties\u2019 political affairs spokespeople explain their party\u2019s line, H\u00f8gh-Dam gave an eight-minute speech in Greenlandic. She had beforehand distributed a translation of her speech to the... <\/p>\n

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