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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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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 06:46:53 GMT
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.93.960412200314.15056A-100000@access2.digex.net>,
Paul O Bartlett  <pobart@access.digex.net> wrote:
>On 12 Apr 1996, John E Koontz wrote (excerpt):
>
>> Actually, Eastern Eskimo (some speakers of which dislike the term
>> Eskimo intensely, though there is no real alternative in English),
>
>    What's wrong with "Inuit," which I believe is term (plural form) by
>which the North American Arctic aboriginal people refer to themselves. 
[rest deleted]

	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.



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