THE OBSERVER: Letters: cold facts about foreign languages

Harold Somers

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I thoroughly enjoyed Tobias Jones’s article on bilingualism (“Two languages good”, Comment). But the claim that the Inuit people, whose language is called Inuktitut, have multiple words for “snow” needs some explanation.

Period	28 Jan 2018

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Title	Letters: cold facts about foreign languages
Media name/outlet	The Observer
Media type	Web
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	28/01/18
Description	I thoroughly enjoyed Tobias Jones’s article on bilingualism (“Two languages good”, Comment). But the claim that the Inuit people, whose language is called Inuktitut, have multiple words for “snow” needs some explanation.
URL	https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/28/letters-languages-bilingual-inuit-carillion-social-care-nuclear-energy-activist-shareholders
Persons	Harold Somers

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linguistics
inuit
languages