Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

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 ...

Just read the column on your Web site about the nine Eskimo words for snow, in which you encourage the idea that Eskimos have an unusually large number of terms for snow and ice. You’d better read the ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

It's an often-repeated "fact", and an oft-debunked "fact", that Inuit languages have over 50 words for "snow". But is there any truth to the idea that the language has more words than elsewhere to ...

EVERYONE KNOWS the Eskimos have dozens, if not hundreds, of words for snow because of their intimate knowledge of their environment. Except that everyone cannot “know” this, because knowledge requires ...

When Leah Ayaruaq McKay moved from Qikitarjuaq to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, at 13, she carried more than her belongings. She carried Inuktitut, the Inuit language spoken in the central and eastern ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic — the ...