After a 34-year translation project, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament were published for the first time this week in an Eskimo language. A group of Inuit Christians in the Canadian territory Nunavut ...

Most of us don't know a lot about the Eskimo language, and we know even less about its finer details. But if we are pushed, most of us can dive into a deep recess of our memory, and bring back ...

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The legend tells that the Eskimo language has an exceptional number of words for "snow" (the exact number varies from dozens to thousands), and as a result, native speakers of these languages have a ...

The claim that Eskimo languages have many words for different types of snow is well known among the public, but it has been greatly exaggerated and is therefore often dismissed by scholars of language ...

Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of ...

One of the most influential linguistic urban legends of all time: the idea that Eskimos have countless words for “snow.” In truth, Inuit and Yupik language families (there is no one “Eskimo language”) ...