An Introduction to Alaskan Athabaskan Languages
Author: Chad Thompson
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the Athabascan verb system, sentence structure, noun and pronoun categories, and prepositions.
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Author: Chad Thompson
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the Athabascan verb system, sentence structure, noun and pronoun categories, and prepositions.
Author: Chad Thompson
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook designed to assist school districts in providing effective educational services to students from the group of Athabaskan languages. Includes an overview of Athabaskan languages, linguistic characteristics of Athabaskan and English, recommended instructional strategies for language in the classroom, and Athabaskan sound systems.
Author: Alaska Native Language Center
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 380
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael E. Krauss
Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : Alaska Native Language Center
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the distribution, relationships, history and present status of 20 Eskimo, Indian and Aleut languages in Alaska.
Author: Michael E. Krauss
Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
Published: 2007-01-25
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ISBN-13: 9780933769007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are twenty Alaska native languages. Eskimo-Aleut is one language family, with Aleutian Aleut as one branch, and Eskimo as the other. There are four Eskimo languages in Alaska, three of them Yupik (Alutiiq [Sugpiaq], Central Yupik, and Siberian Yupik), and the other Inupiaq. Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit is another language family, with the nearly extinct Eyak as one branch and all the Athabaskan languages as another. Tlingit is in some ways distantly related to both. There are eleven Athabaskan languages in Alaska, differing from each other to varying degrees. Haida is a completely different language, spoken also in Canada. Tsimshian is also a completely different language, spoken mostly in Canada. The inset map of North America shows the great spread of Inupiaq Eskimo across Canada and Greenland, and of Athabaskan though Canada, in Oregon and California, and in the Southwest (Navajo and Apache). None of the Alaska native languages were written before the coming of the Russians. The first written Alaskan language was Aleut, using a Slavonic alphabet. The first Aleut books were printed in 1834. By now, good writing systems have been developed for all Alaska native languages, and books have been printed in most of them. Each Alaska native language has its own intricate beauty, a highly complex and regular grammar and enormous vocabulary. This has been developed by the people over the thousands of years they have lived in this area. Recently the history of these languages has been tragic. From about 1900 until the 1960s, native languages were severely suppressed. Children were punished for speaking their native language in school. They were forced to abandon their language, in order to speak English only. In 1972, the Alaska State Legislature passed the Bilingual Education bill, giving children the right to use and cultivate their native language in school, and also established the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Many important developments are taking place now to maintain for future generations of Alaskans the precious heritage of their native languages and cultures.
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Published: 2008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Siri Tuttle
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anatole Lyovin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0195149882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little background in languages, to the variety of the languages of the world.
Author: Chad Thompson
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Published: 1984-06-01
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781555000691
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