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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From Greenland +‎ -ic.

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  • Rhymes: -ændɪk

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Greenlandic (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
    • 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times[1]:
      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.

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Greenlandic

  1. The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.
    • 2025 September 25, Jacob Judah, “How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral”, in MIT Technology Review[2]:
      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.

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