It’s an old adage, that the Inuit language has over fifty words for snow. And yet, this popular misconception is not too far from the truth. That’s because, as researchers from the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Story by Charles Kemp, The University of Melbourne; Ekaterina Vylomova, The University of Melbourne; Temuulen Khishigsuren, The University of Melbourne, and Terry Regier, University of California, ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. That old cliché is a lie. It’s long been discredited, or at least ...

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one generation to the next. Inuktitut is threatened by dominant ...