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The Eskimo language …………….

Eskimo, the mother tongue of 100,000 natives in
Greenland. Alaska and Canada, is struggling for
survival. In Canada sixty-seven per cent of Eskimos
speak primarily the Eskimo language at home. But the
invasion of English via television, music tapes,
magazines, bureaucrats, employers and tourists is
eroding the Eskimo's linguistic soul. TV satellites and
computers are hastening the change. The Eskimo
language fascinates linguists. They classify it as a
"polysynthetic" language, meaning that it names things
and expresses concepts by collating long strings of
ideas into single words. The language is also known
for a vocabulary rich in words rooted in the
environment. .When an Eskimo says "I'm going
hunting", the verb he uses depends on whether he is
hunting seal, bear or some other animal.