Cold-climate civilizations developed rich specialized vocabularies for snow and ice

Evidence

The Illustrated Glossary of Snow and Ice contains 154 terms for snow and ice in English and matches them with terms in Danish, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, French-Canadian and Argentinian Spanish. Many of the expressions—for instance, permafrost icebound, pack ice—are absent from the vocabularies of other languages. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to linguistic relativism debates (Whorf/Sapir) about how environment shapes vocabulary — parallels to Inuit snow words. — connects to: Medieval map errors sprang from fixed climate categories as much as ignorance
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 72