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The word parka is derived from the Nenets language. In the Aleutian Islands the word simply means "animal skin". It first entered the English written record in a 1625 work by Samuel Purchas.

The Inuit who speak Inuktitut use parkas and have various terms related to them as follows:

}|-|parka tail|???????|ningimnaqtuq||-|parka hood|???? |amaut||-|parka

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