Naalakkersuisut
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic Naalakkersuisut.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Naalakkersuisut
- The government of Greenland.
- 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
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Naalakkersuisut
- (plural only) Naalakkersuisut; the government of Greenland
Descendants
- English: Naalakkersuisut