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Greenlandic

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Etymology

From Greenland + -ic.

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  • Rhymes: -ændɪk

Adjective

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:
      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.

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