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ᐃᒡᓗ / iglu = house, building (of any kind) in Inuktitut

Inuktitut not only uses an intricate and beautiful script but it also gave us a word meaning “a shelter made of blocks of snow” – igloo (English, Polish), iglo (Dutch, Danish), iglu (Finnish, Hungarian, Portuguese), Iglu (German), iglú (Spanish, Catalan, Czech), iglù (Italian), иглу {iglu} (Russian, Bulgarian), iglw (Welsh), 이글루 {igeullu} (Korean), etc.

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