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Friday, June 15, 2007

Jingle bells, Jingle bells …

Today’s fact regards the number of Inuit words for snow. A popular belief is that Eskimo as more than an hundred words for snow. In the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, there is less than 25 words to describe snow.

Well, this might still seem a lot, but in English, there’s at least 40 words including berg, frost, glacier, hail, shush, flurry, sleet. Now you can argue that all of this words describe a different state/form of frozen water, but this is exactly the same for the Yup’ik language.
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