It all started in the late 19th century when anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas spent time in the icy wilds of Baffin Island in northern Canada studying the local Inuit communities. It is one of five Eskimo languages. Atiqtalaaq means Polar bear cub in Inuit language. Unpublished manuscript prepared for the SIKU project (in Russian and Naukanski Yupik). siku ice in general Let it qanik, let it qanik, let it qanik! has something to do with inuit, then it's obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with inuit. thank you - hw'aa, Gwich'in Athabascan The word "Eskimo" was once commonly used to refer to the two main Indigenous groups in the Arctic: the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, and the Yupik of western Alaska, south-central Alaska, and the Russian Far East. Many will argue that French and English, as used in the cold regions of North America or Europe, have as many words as Inuktitut to speak about snow or ice. Have a nice day! I think of the word often in these times of record-setting high temperatures, and think back fondly to when I first met the Inuit some 35 years ago. Uggianaqtuq . The Silaluk 7" gets its name from the Inuit word for storm.