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- Eskimo_words_for_snow abstract "The claim that Eskimo languages have an unusually large number of words for snow is a widespread idea first voiced by Franz Boas and has become a cliché; it is often used to illustrate the way in which language embodies different local concerns in different parts of the world. In fact, the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, but the structure of these languages tends to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word. A good deal of the ongoing debate thus depends on how one defines "word", and perhaps even "word root". The first re-evaluation of the claim was by linguist Laura Martin in 1986, who traced the history of the claim and argued that its prevalence had diverted attention from serious research into linguistic relativity. A subsequent influential and humorous, and polemical, essay by Geoff Pullum repeated Martin's critique, calling the process by which the so-called "myth" was created the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax". Pullum argued that the fact that number of word roots for snow is similar in Eskimoan languages and English proves that there exists no difference in the breadth of their respective vocabularies to define snow. Other specialists in the matter of Eskimoan languages and their knowledge of snow and especially sea ice, refute this notion and defend Boas' original fieldwork amongst the Inuit of Baffin Island.Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. One can create a practically unlimited number of new words in the Eskimoan languages on any topic, not just snow, and these same concepts can be expressed in other languages using combinations of words. In general and especially in this case, it is not necessarily meaningful to compare the number of words between languages that create words in different ways due to different grammatical structures.Opponents of the "Hoax" theory have stated that Boas, who lived among Baffin islanders and learnt their language, did in fact take account of the polysynthetic nature of Inuit language and included "only words representing meaningful distinctions" in his account.Studies of the Sami languages of Norway, Sweden and Finland, conclude that the languages have anywhere from 180 snow- and ice-related words and as many as 300 different words for types of snow, tracks in snow, and conditions of the use of snow.".
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- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "'snow' in the Inuit language".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "Eskimo Words for Snow".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "Eskimo postulate".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "Eskimo words for snow".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "Eskimos have '''''N''''' words for snow".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "Eskimos have 50 words for snow".
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- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "the number of words Eskimos have for snow".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "unusually large number of words for snow".
- Eskimo_words_for_snow wikiPageWikiLinkText "words for snow".
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- Eskimo_words_for_snow subject Category:Eskimo–Aleut_languages.
- Eskimo_words_for_snow subject Category:Snow.
- Eskimo_words_for_snow subject Category:Snowclones.
- Eskimo_words_for_snow subject Category:Urban_legends.
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- Eskimo_words_for_snow comment "The claim that Eskimo languages have an unusually large number of words for snow is a widespread idea first voiced by Franz Boas and has become a cliché; it is often used to illustrate the way in which language embodies different local concerns in different parts of the world.".
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- Eskimo_words_for_snow sameAs 愛斯基摩語中關於雪的詞語.
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