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Quote: earliest reference to Eskimos and snow; four unrelated words for snow on the ground, snow drift, falling snow, and drifting snow

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problem of classifying information
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words in natural languages

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The earliest reference to Eskimos and snow was … [Introduction to the Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian,] 1911:25-26). Among many examples of examples of cross-linguistic variation in … snow in Eskimo: aput 'snow on the ground', …   Google-1   Google-2

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