"Martin, Laura. What you'll find, until someone receives a grant to live among the Circumpolar Peoples around the top of earth for 10 years and record each word for snow, is that the Inuit-related peoples may have probably 60 different words for the delicate winter precipitation, but probably not 400 unique words. Answer (1 of 2): What is the Inuit word for a house? Briggs provides this example of a primary source because it shows how the Inuit culture is different from ours. When considered from a more philosophical scope; can it be that possibly the words for snow are as vastly many as there are snow flakes themselves? Priyakli: snow that looks like it's falling upward. Inuit form of Jessica. Zip, Floppy, Video, Ram, Rom, Gigabyte, Megabyte, Byte, Mobo, Scanner, Mouse, Router, Cam, Athlon, Since the beginning of the 19th century, Inuit hunters have relied on narwhal as an essential source of food, blubber, and raw materials. Boas, Franz. Harald Gaski ed. Browse our 37 native Alaskan boy names and meanings: Traditionally speaking, the Inuit people of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada dont view gender in the same way as we typically do in the English-speaking world. Google Endangered Language Project. Inuits at Cape Fullerton, Nunavut, Canada; 1905. the vowels [a, i, u] are pronounced in the same way as the same vowels You can ski all the way through March in Lapland. Stuff and nonsense reigns! What is the. short.). /* 728x15 link ad */