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igloo
An igloo, (Inuit language: ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iglu )〕 Inuktitut syllabics (plural: )), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of snow, typically built when the snow can be easily compacted.
Although igloos are stereotypically associated with all Inuit, they were traditionally associated with people of Canada's Central Arctic and Greenland's Thule area. Other Inuit people tended to use snow to insulate their houses, which were constructed from whalebone and hides. Snow is used because the air pockets trapped in it make it an insulator. On the outside, temperatures may be as low as , but on the inside the temperature may range from to when warmed by body heat alone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How Warm is an Igloo?, BEE453 Spring 2003 (PDF) )〕
==Nomenclature==
The Inuit language word (plural ) can be used for a house or home built of any material,〔 and is not restricted exclusively to snowhouses (called specifically , plural ), but includes traditional tents, sod houses, homes constructed of driftwood and modern buildings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Mackenzie Inuit Winter House )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reconstructing traditional Inuit house forms using three-dimensional interactive computer modelling )〕 Several dialects throughout the Canadian Arctic (Siglitun, Inuinnaqtun, Natsilingmiutut, Kivalliq, North Baffin) use for all buildings, including snowhouses, and it is the term used by the Government of Nunavut.〔〔''Inuinnaqtun English Dictionary''. Cambridge Bay, Nunavut: Nunavut Arctic College, 1996.〕 An exception to this is the dialect used in the Igloolik region. is used for other buildings, while ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Igluvijaq )〕 (plural , Inuktitut syllabics: ) is specifically used for a snowhouse. Outside Inuit culture, however, ''igloo'' refers exclusively to shelters constructed from blocks of compacted snow, generally in the form of a dome.
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