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Greenlandic
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English
Etymology
en :af Greenland -ic + 1
Pronunciation
en en-us-greenlandic.ogg US
en ændɪk 3
Adjective
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Of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, the Greenlandic people or the Greenlandic language.
en Matthew H. Birkhold A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/trump-greenland-denmark.html 2019-08-22 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20200716234635/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/trump-greenland-denmark.html
Derived terms
en Greenlandicness Greenlandic Norse West Greenlandic Pidgin
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to Greenland, its people or language
Asturian: ast groenlandés
Catalan: ca groenlandès, ca grenlandès
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 格陵蘭 格陵蘭的 Gélínglán de
Czech: cs grónský
Danish: da grønlandsk
Dutch: nl Groenlands
Faroese: fo grønlendskur
Finnish: fi grönlantilainen
French: fr groenlandais
German: de grönländisch
Greek: el γροιλανδικός m
Hungarian: hu grönlandi
Icelandic: is grænlenskur
Irish: ga Graonlannach
Italian: it groenlandese
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb grønlandsk
Nynorsk: nn grønlandsk
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk ґренландски
Polish: pl grenlandzki
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: pt groenlandês
European Portuguese: pt gronelandês
Russian: ru гренла́ндский
Spanish: es groenlandés
Swedish: sv grönländsk
Proper noun
The official language of Greenland, an Eskimo-Aleut language written with the Latin alphabet.
en How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/ w:MIT Technology Review September 25, 2025 Jacob Judah 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251218123919/https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/
Synonyms
en Greenlandish
en Kalaallisut
Translations
language
Armenian: hy գրենլանդերեն
Asturian: ast groenlandés
Basque: eu groenlandiera
Belarusian: be грэнла́ндская f, be грэнля́ндзкая f taraškievica
Breton: br kalaallisut
Bulgarian: bg гренла́ндски ези́к m
Catalan: ca groenlandès m, ca grenlandès m, ca kalaallisut m
Cherokee: chr ᎧᎳᎵᏑᏘ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 格陵蘭語 Gélínglán yǔ
Czech: cs grónština f
Danish: da grønlandsk
Dutch: nl Groenlands n
Esperanto: eo Gronlanda lingvo
Faroese: fo grønlendskt n
Finnish: fi grönlanti, fi grönlannin kieli
French: fr groenlandais m
Georgian: ka გრენლანდიური ენა
German: de Grönländisch n, de Kalaallisut n
Greek: el γροιλανδικά n-p
Greenlandic: kl kalaallisut, kl Kalaallisut
Hawaiian: haw ʻōlelo ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo
Hungarian: hu grönlandi nyelv
Icelandic: is grænlenska f
Indonesian: id bahasa Kalaallisut
Irish: ga Graonlainnis f
Italian: it groenlandese m
Japanese: ja グリーンランド語 Gurīnrando-go, ja カラーリット語 Karāritto-go
Korean: ko ^그린란드-어
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr kalaallisut
Latin: la lingua Groenlandica f
Lithuanian: lt grenlandų kalba
Macedonian: mk калалисутски m, mk гренландски m
Navajo: nv Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad, nv Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé bizaad
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb grønlandsk m
Nynorsk: nn grønlandsk m
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk ґренландски m
Polish: pl grenlandzki m
Portuguese:
Brazilian Portuguese: pt groenlandês m
European Portuguese: pt gronelandês m
Russian: ru гренла́ндский язы́к m, ru гренла́ндский m
Serbo-Croatian: sh гренландски језик m
Silesian: szl grynlandzkŏ gŏdka
Slovak: sk grónčina f
Slovene: sl grenlandščina f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb grönlandšćina f
Spanish: es groenlandés m
Swahili: sw Kigrinlandi
Swedish: sv grönländska
Turkish: tr Grönlandca, tr Kalaallisut
Ukrainian: uk ґренла́ндська f
Welsh: cy Glasynyseg f
See also
en Inuktitut
Further reading
1 kl kal
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Anagrams
en acdeegilnnr calendering
en Greenland Languages