Eskimo vs. Inuit
[es-kuh-moh]
/ ˈɛs kəˌmoʊ /
noun
plural
Eskimos,plural
Eskimo-
Sometimes Offensive. a member of a group of Indigenous peoples of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and northeastern Siberia.
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any of the languages of these peoples, divided into two branches: Inuit, spoken in Greenland, Canada, and northern Alaska, and Yupik, spoken in southern Alaska and Siberia.
adjective
noun
plural
Inuits,plural
Inuit-
a member of a group of Indigenous peoples inhabiting northernmost North America from northern Alaska to eastern Canada and Greenland.
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the language of the Inuit, a member of the Eskimo-Aleut family comprising a variety of dialects.
