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Greenlandic

Greenlandic adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.

Adjective

Greenlandic (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
    • 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...2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2020

Proper noun

Greenlandic

  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.2025 September 25, Jacob Judah, “How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral”, in MIT Technology Review, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2025

Greenlandic meaning in Bengali and Indonesian

Greenlandic in Bengali

গ্রিনল্যান্ডীয়

Greenlandic in Indonesian

language
bahasa Kalaallisut

Synonyms of Greenlandic

Origin of Greenlandic

From Greenland + -ic.

Words formed from Greenlandic

Phrases with Greenlandic

Words that rhyme with Greenlandic

Questions about Greenlandic

What does Greenlandic mean?
Greenlandic means of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
What is Greenlandic in Bengali?
Greenlandic in Bengali is গ্রিনল্যান্ডীয়. See Greenlandic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Greenlandic?
Greenlandic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Greenlandic in the dictionary

  1. Greenland spars
  2. Greenland wolf
  3. Greenlander
  4. Greenlanders
  5. Greenlandian
  6. Greenlandic
  7. Greenlandic Eskimo Pidgin
  8. Greenlandic Norse
  9. Greenlandicness
  10. Greenlandification
  11. Greenlandish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Greenlandic (page history and authors); Greenlandic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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