cultural vocabularies: how many words do Inuits have for snow?

Cultural vocabularies: how many words do the Inuits have for snow?
The Inuits are not alone in having many words to describe a thing that preoccupies them, patterns occur in the vocabularies of many cultures
• Adam Jacot de Boinod
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• theguardian.com, Tuesday 29 April 2014 17.00 AEST

‘Nakhur’ is the Persian word for ‘a camel that gives no milk until her nostrils are tickled’. Photograph: Michal Sleczek/Getty Images/Flickr RF
It is informative to look at where the preponderance of words fall within a language.