> the language family is generally called Eskimo or Eskimoan, because it includes the Yup'ik languages of Siberia and Alaska as well as the Inuit languages from the northeastern half of Alaska across Canada to Greenland
And I've heard Eskimo is a preferred collective term for North American indigenous arctic dwellers, because Inuit is just one tribe/ethnicity among a few!
The snow words myth: progress at last - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/...
Bad science reporting again: the Eskimos are back - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4419
"Words for snow" watch - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3497
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax - https://web.archive.org/web/20181203001555/http://users.utu....
"Eskimo Words for Snow: A Case Study in the Genesis and Decay of an Anthropological Example" - https://www.jstor.org/stable/677570
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow