Native Languages of Alaska
Abstract Alaska is the original American homeland of two great language families, Eskimo-Aleut and Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, both of which have spread dramatically beyond Alaska. Conversely, two minor families have recently also spread into extreme south-eastern Alaska. One is Haida, one or two langu...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780199266623.003.0021 2024-05-19T07:27:55+00:00 Native Languages of Alaska Krauss, Michael E 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199266623.003.0021 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52484978/isbn-9780199266623-book-part-21.pdf unknown Oxford University PressOxford The Vanishing Languages Of The Pacific Rim page 406-417 ISBN 9780199266623 9781383040890 book-chapter 2007 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199266623.003.0021 2024-05-02T09:32:23Z Abstract Alaska is the original American homeland of two great language families, Eskimo-Aleut and Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, both of which have spread dramatically beyond Alaska. Conversely, two minor families have recently also spread into extreme south-eastern Alaska. One is Haida, one or two languages, the northern variety of which spread from the Queen Charlotte Islands to southern Prince of Wales Island during the eighteenth century, and the other is Tsimshianic, three or four languages, the Coastal variety of which spread to Annette Island in 1887. Eskimo-Aleut spread from Alaska far east over the Canadian Arctic to reach Greenland 1,000 years ago, but all the deeper diversity of the family is still in Alaska (and neighbouring Russia: Chukotka and the Commander Islands). Book Part aleut Arctic Chukotka eskimo* Eskimo–Aleut eyak Greenland haida Prince of Wales Island tlingit Tsimshian* Alaska Oxford University Press 406 417 |
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Abstract Alaska is the original American homeland of two great language families, Eskimo-Aleut and Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, both of which have spread dramatically beyond Alaska. Conversely, two minor families have recently also spread into extreme south-eastern Alaska. One is Haida, one or two languages, the northern variety of which spread from the Queen Charlotte Islands to southern Prince of Wales Island during the eighteenth century, and the other is Tsimshianic, three or four languages, the Coastal variety of which spread to Annette Island in 1887. Eskimo-Aleut spread from Alaska far east over the Canadian Arctic to reach Greenland 1,000 years ago, but all the deeper diversity of the family is still in Alaska (and neighbouring Russia: Chukotka and the Commander Islands). |
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Native Languages of Alaska |
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