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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: "Eskimos" (was: Re: Crystal e le "continuo dialectal")
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In article <4l3e78$1mb@oden.abc.se>, Kjell Rehnstroem <m9548@abc.se> wrote:
>deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) wrote:
>
>
>>	What's wrong is that's too specific, excluding speakers of
>>Yupik, Inupiaq, and other Eskimo-Aleut languages.  Strictly speaking,
>>there are no Inuit in Alaska.
>
>I read somewhere that when Peter Freuchen was in Alaska with an
>expedition, the people he had hired in Greanland could make themselves
>understood with the local aborigenal population in Alaska, and I would
>be very surprised if there weren't a relation between the names Nuuk
>and Nome (which seams to be locative of Nuuk). 

	I'd be surprised if there were since reliable sources derive
"Nome" from a misreading of "Name?" on an early map whose mapmakers
was unsure of the designation for that city.  Does anyone know what the
Yu'pik name for "Nome" is?

>In Sweden we talk of Greenlanders, and then we mean the aboriginal
>population of Greenland. Could Inuit be limitted to Canada in an
>analogous way?

	Possibly.  It depends partly on how Inupiaq speakers feel about 
being referred to as "Inuit."

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