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oai:anla.uaf.edu:G961K1997

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Title:The Indigenous Languages of the North: A Report on Their Present State
Contributor (author):Krauss, Michael E.
Creator:Krauss, Michael E.
Date:1997
Description:This chapter describes the condition and status of northern minority languages, including Greenlandic Inuit of Greenland (Denmark); in Canada the Inuit language of Labrador, Quebec, and the Northwest Territories, the Athabaskan (Dene) languages in or partly in the Northwest and Yukon Territories; in the United States, all languages in or partly in Alaska (Eskimo-Aleut, Athabaskan, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshianic); in Russia the languages of those groups defined as the so-called 26 Ma/ye Narody Severa (Small Northern Peoples, but here defined as about 40 still living languages): Eskimo-Aleut, Chukchi-Koryak, Itel'men, Nivkh, Yukagir, Ketic, Tungusic, the Samoyedic and Ob'-Ugric branches of Uralic, but of Finno-Permian only Saami, including Saami in northern Europe (Finland, Sweden, Norway). An appendix includes population and speaker statistics, as well as evaluation of endangerment status. These statistics can also be found at http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/languages/stats/stats1997/ Comments: The Archive also holds the volume from which this article was taken, shelved as G961K1997 BOOK. Citation: Northern Minority Languages: Problems of Survival, ed. by H. Shoji & J. Janhunen, 1-34. (Senri Ethological Studies 44). Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology. (1997)
Format:application/pdf
Subject:Ahtena language
Pacific Gulf Yupik language
Aleut language
Babine language
Carrier language
Beaver language
Chipewyan language
Degexit'an language
Tanaina language
Eyak language
Northern Haida language
Gwichʼin language
Holikachuk language
Han language
North Alaskan Inupiatun language
Koyukon language
Naukan Yupik language
Northern Sami language
Central Siberian Yupik language
Tanacross language
Tlingit language
Lower Tanana language
Tsimshian language
Northern Tutchone language
Southern Tutchone language
Upper Tanana language
policy
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hoi
haa
esi
koy
ynk
sme
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ttm
tce
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Type (DCMI):Text

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Citation: Krauss, Michael E. 1997. Alaska Native Language Archive.
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