Greenlandic

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language. not-comparable

    "In 2014, the Greenlandic government — called the Naalakkersuisut — established a reconciliation commission to investigate the continuing consequences of colonialism. After three years, the commission concluded that a majority of the nearly 60,000 people living in Greenland, 88 percent of whom are Greenlandic Inuit, are still marked by the negative effects of the colonial period."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.

    "Nevertheless, it may be too late—mistakes in Greenlandic already seem to have become embedded in machine translators. If you prompt either Google Translate or ChatGPT to do something as simple as count to 10 in proper Greenlandic, neither program can deliver."

Synonyms

All synonyms
greenlandishgreenlandishinuitkalaallisutkalaallisut

Example

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"That's not Klingon, that's Greenlandic."

Etymology

From Greenland + -ic.

Related phrases

Greenlandic NorseWest Greenlandic Pidgineskimo aleut

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