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The word Eskimo is a racially charged term in Canada. [52] [53] In Canada's Central Arctic, Inuinnaq is the preferred term, [54] and in the eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit. The language is often called Inuktitut, though other local designations are also used.
Every word must have only one root (free morpheme) always at the beginning. [12] Eskaleut languages have a relatively small number of roots: in the case of Central Alaskan Yup'ik, around two thousand. [13] Following the root are a number of postbases, which are bound morphemes that add to the basic meaning of the root.
An ulu (Inuktitut: ᐅᓗ; plural: uluit; sometimes referred to as 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is used in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food, and sometimes even trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build ...
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)
Proto-Eskaleut, Proto-Eskimo–Aleut or Proto-Inuit-Yupik-Unangan [citation needed] is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Eskaleut languages, family containing Eskimo and Aleut. Its existence is known through similarities in Eskimo and Aleut. The existence of Proto-Eskaleut is generally accepted among linguists.
Ottumwa – Algonquian word possibly meaning "rippling waters", "place of perseverance or self-will", or "town". Owanka – Lakota for "good camping ground". It was originally named Wicota, a Lakota word meaning "a crowd". [138] Pukwana – the name given to the smoke emitted from a Native American peace pipe.
Proto-Eskimoan, Proto-Eskimo, or Proto-Inuit-Yupik, is the reconstructed ancestor of the Eskimo languages. [1] It was spoken by the ancestors of the Yupik and Inuit peoples. It is linguistically related to the Aleut language , and both descend from the Proto-Eskaleut language .
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.