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What Even Is a Word?


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Words confuse me. Like, even more than syllables.

What even is a language:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-PV9ryXM4

The paper (book? pdf thingy) I mention in the video:

http://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/anlm/05265040.pdf

Stuff in this video I didn't make:

Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Outro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Be7fy1dx14
Pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit#mediaviewer/File:Qamutik_1_1999-04-01.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiing#mediaviewer/File:Skier-carving-a-turn.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo–Aleut_languages#mediaviewer/File:Eskimo-Aleut_langs.png

Places I got information:

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
https://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html
A Grammatical Sketch of Siberian Yupik Eskimo by Steven Jacobson, which can be found here: http://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/anlm/05265040.pdf

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