&gt;Wouldn&#x27;t using English be a disservice to them<p>No. If it&#x27;s true that a group of people come up with words for different types of snow, they&#x27;ll do it in whatever language they speak. It&#x27;s not like these words just showed up in their language out of nowhere. Likewise, someone learning Inuit but living in Jamaica probably wouldn&#x27;t learn all those snow words.