Most eskimo groups have only 2 words for snow, but all the inuit languages taken into account there is only 4 words for snow in total.
It is a popular misconception that the Inuit have many words for snow. The words may differ according to the number of tribes, but generally there is no more words in Inuit that in English. The hoax started in 1911 and from then the number of words may have risen to about 400. However, counting generously, there may be about a dozen.
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The nouns 'rain' and 'snow' are both singular, common, concrete nouns; words for types of water that fall from the sky; words for things.
There is only one word for snow in Hawaiian, which is "hau."
Chum and Coho salmon: IqalugruaqPink Salmon: Amaqtuuq
Eskimo Snow was created in 2007.
snow eater
it is made out of snow
Eskimos do not have around 200 words for snow. The idea they do is a common erronious myth that has come about because of the belief that 'if eskimos live in snow, then they must have lots of different words to differentiate between different types. In actual fact the English language has more words for snow then the Eskimo language does.
The Eskimo did not have words for things they did not have- like horses.
In Irish it's "Banríon an tSneachta"
No they are anything but African. They hail from Asia. Mostly mongoloids.
An Eskimo snow house., A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.
eskimo is politically incorrect, call them inuits, an no, there would be no profit
when I was a baby my mother sang me a lullaby about eskimo babies and that's how I came across this question as I was surfung for the words to that lullaby......she said eskimo babies are called picininnis
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A komatik is an Eskimo sled. It is designed to travel on snow and ice, and made of wooden runners and crossbars lashed with rawhide.