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  2. Eskimo - Wikipedia

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    For example, dual number is not known in Sirenik Eskimo, while most Eskimo–Aleut languages have dual, [108] including its neighboring Siberian Yupikax relatives. [ 109 ] Little is known about the origin of this diversity.

  3. Inuit - Wikipedia

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    The term Eskimo is still used by people; [19] [68] [69] however in the 21st century, usage in North America has declined. [20] [21] In the United States the term Eskimo was, as of 2016, commonly [19] used to describe Inuit and the Siberian and Alaskan Yupik, and Iñupiat peoples. Eskimo is still used by some groups and organizations to ...

  4. Inuit culture - Wikipedia

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    The term culture of the Inuit, therefore, refers primarily to these areas; however, parallels to other Eskimo groups can also be drawn. The word "Eskimo" has been used to encompass the Inuit and Yupik, and other indigenous Alaskan and Siberian peoples, [2] [3] [4] but this usage is in decline. [5] [6]

  5. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Words of Nahuatl origin have entered many European languages. Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition)

  6. Eskimology - Wikipedia

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    Eskimology / ˌ ɛ s k ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i / or Inuitology is a complex of humanities and sciences studying the languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of the speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages and Inuit, Yupik and Aleut (or Unangam), sometimes collectively known as Eskimos, in historical and comparative context.

  7. Inuit languages - Wikipedia

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    The Inuit languages can form very long words by adding more and more descriptive affixes to words. Those affixes may modify the syntactic and semantic properties of the base word, or may add qualifiers to it in much the same way that English uses adjectives or prepositional phrases to qualify nouns (e.g. "falling snow", "blowing snow", "snow on ...

  8. Stereotypes of Indigenous peoples of Canada and the United ...

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    The Circumpolar peoples of the Americas, often referred to by the English term Eskimo, have a distinct set of stereotypes. Eskimo itself is an exonym, deriving from phrases that Algonquin tribes used for their northern neighbors, [3] in Canada the term Inuit is generally preferred, while Alaska Natives is used in the United States.

  9. Eskimo words for snow - Wikipedia

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    The claim that Eskimo words for snow are unusually numerous, particularly in contrast to English, is a cliché commonly used to support the controversial linguistic relativity hypothesis. In linguistic terminology, the relevant languages are the Eskimo–Aleut languages , specifically the Yupik and Inuit varieties.