Greenlandic

American  

[green-lan-dik] / grinˈlæn dɪk /

noun

1. a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Greenland, its inhabitants, or their language.

Greenlandic British  

/ ɡriːnˈlændɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Greenland, the Greenlanders, or the Inuit dialect spoken in Greenland

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noun

1. the dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Greenland

Etymology

Origin of Greenlandic

Greenland + -ic

Example Sentences

The real hitch of the negotiations is ensuring the U.S. respects Danish and Greenlandic sovereignty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Naaja Nathanielsen, a former Greenlandic minister of business and natural resources, said the existing agreement allows the U.S. to build more bases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Greenlandic officials expressed feeling threatened by the U.S., which previously left abandoned military bases for Denmark to clean up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Yet US interest in the vast Arctic territory has not waned, and the red line on the Greenlandic -- and Danish -- side remains the same: any transfer of sovereignty is off the table.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

Bahá’í literature in Greenlandic, previously disseminated as far as Thule, Etah, beyond the Arctic Circle, has been dispatched to radio station in Brondlundsfjord, Peary Land, eighty-second latitude, northernmost outpost of the globe.

From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi