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You may have heard of the legend of the hundred words used by Inuits to talk about the snow. This tale is famous enough to have a proper article in Wikipedia. But, the notion of word in a language is tricky, especially in polysynthetic languages. On a given root, it is possible to add a substantial amount of suffixes to create a large number of words which, in other languages such as English of French, will be clauses or full sentences. For example, Inuit can have a word for "recently fallen snow already became solid".