Palabras p'urhépecha para ola

• Main Author: Nava López, Enrique Fernando
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas 2009
• Subjects: P’urhépecha; language; Eskimos; idiom; tongues; glossary (for “snow; ” “oWë”; Idioma; Esquimal; Léxico; Inglés; Lengua; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/354

The Boas and Whorf case study of the existence of several words for “snow” in Eskimo language, as compared to the single English word “snow”, is applied as one of the instances of the language culture-thought relationship. An alternative case is discussed, that of the P’urhépecha’s several words for...