After a 34-year translation project, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament were published for the first time this week in an Eskimo language. A group of Inuit Christians in the Canadian territory Nunavut ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

The claim that Eskimo languages have many words for different types of snow is well known among the public, but it has been greatly exaggerated and is therefore often dismissed by scholars of language ...

-- When Edna MacLean, a renowned Inuk linguist, took the podium at a language conference in Iqaluit this year, over 200 Inuit from Canada, the United States and Greenland were listening in the ...

After a 34-year translation project, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament were published for the first time this week in an Eskimo language. A group of Inuit Christians in the Canadian territory Nunavut ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

Researchers have taken a fresh look at words for snow, taking on an urban legend referred to by some as 'the great Eskimo vocabulary hoax.' That old trope about there being at least 50 Eskimo words ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

In January 2021, in close collaboration with the Government of Nunavut, Microsoft announced the launch of Inuktitut in Microsoft Translator. Today, at the start of Uqausirmut Quviasuutiqarniq, an ...

One of the most influential linguistic urban legends of all time: the idea that Eskimos have countless words for “snow.” In truth, Inuit and Yupik language families (there is no one “Eskimo language”) ...