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But our results suggest the Inuit snow vocabulary is indeed exceptional. Out of 616 languages, the language with the top score for "snow" was Eastern Canadian Inuktitut.

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But our results suggest the Inuit snow vocabulary is indeed exceptional. Out of 616 languages, the language with the top score for “snow” was Eastern Canadian Inuktitut.