This seems like a really funny concept to me, that any language should be pure. How many millennia do we need to go back for purity? What is untainted English? Only words from the Angles?

You may find Anglish amusing, then:

https://anglish.org/wiki/Anglish

What's funny is my initial impression of Anglish is that it reminds me a lot of German.

Not surprising, it is a Germanic language.

West Germanic, Anglo Frisian to be precise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Frisian_languages

Given English's "pure" roots, that should probably be entirely unsurprising.

Well, that wordbook is mighty bewitching.

Every language in contact with other languages borrows words. Many of the French words in English come from Gaulish, for example bard. In tun there are also many Celtic words from before the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain that are preserved. The Franks themselves who later influenced English were Germanic people moving into a formerly Roman-Celtic region who adopted a kind of Latin. Further confusing this, the Anglo-Saxons spoke a language that that was carrying some words from West Baltic languages like the word for awl.

The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous.

  > The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous.

Agreed. French, of course, is 100% impure if we're supposed to think that way.. it didn't exist a dozen centuries or so ago, all its words are from Latin and regional languages, and so on. And of course other languages are like that too.

Right. Even Latin had a lot of Etruscan vocabulary and used the Etruscan alphabet.

Which was a bastardization of Greek and Phoenician.

Do you mean the alphabet? Because Etruscan is not related to Greek, and Phoenician was a Semitic language.

Funnily "pure" itself is a latinism by that approach, and I guess most Germananic roots will be linked to Indo-European reconstruction by modern philologist standards, anyway.

Taken as a fun challenging learning game that can possibly make ludic instruction meet an amusing defy.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pure

>The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous.

Klingon and Sindarin are 100% pure.

You should clearly see from context that what I meant were non-constructed natural languages.

When I try to interpret this generously, I wonder if you’re suggesting that the Inuit languages in question would be less prone to crossover with other languages?

I wonder how much linguistic distance there is between Inuit languages in the region as compared to, say, Romance languages in Western Europe.

Might not be that large, depending on which region we're talking about. From what I've heard, Inuit expansion in the arctic is a fairly recent event.

Fun fact: Ancestors of the modern Inuit people arrived at Greenland after Vikings did!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_people

> Fun fact: Ancestors of the modern Inuit people arrived at Greenland after Vikings did!

The Egyptians left records, and pictures, of the peoples to their south, with whom they engaged variously in diplomacy, trade, and military conflict.

Those peoples are now extinct, with more recent arrivals occupying their land.

Is your language pure? The word for pineapples is ananas in just about every language besides English.

Don't come at me unless you're speaking the original proto-Indo-European.