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How Many Words for Snow Do "Eskimos" Really Have? (2018x190)

Ausstrahlung: Jul 08, 2018

If you happen to like our videos and have a few →→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why are Ferris Wheels Called Ferris Wheels? https://youtu.be/TQjXgjxn7EE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt Why People On Planes Say “Mayday” in an Emergency? https://youtu.be/CO7gUtyK8Nc?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt In this video: It’s impossible to say precisely how many words for snow certain native peoples of the far north have. Why? To begin with, we are talking about a group of related languages, not just one, and even within these languages there are variations from specific region to specific region. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/02/many-words-snow-eskimos-really/ Sources: https://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/varia/snow.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000405.html https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/mini-object-lesson-no-there-are-not-a-hundred-eskimo-words-for-snow/426651/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there-really-are-50-eskimo-words-for-snow/2013/01/14/e0e3f4e0-59a0-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_story.html?utm_term=.107deaf1c5d0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#Nomenclature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo%E2%80%93Aleut_languages http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3497 https://blog.oup.com/2011/02/eskimo-snow/ http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/88-301/introduction/eskimo_snow_words.html http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/snow.html https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/mini-object-lesson-no-there-are-not-a-hundred-eskimo-words-for-snow/42665