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Chya, Dehrich; Fine, Julia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
For the past five years, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository has been documenting intricacies of the Alutiiq language with the help of Elder speakers and a grant from the National Science Foundation (#1360839). The project's primary focus has been recording vocabulary, grammar, and ways of speaking for this threatened Native Alaskan…
Descriptors: Language Research, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Vocabulary
Eggleston, Keri M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Tlingit language, indigenous to Southeast Alaska and neighboring parts of British Columbia and the Yukon territory, is related to the Athabascan languages and the recently extinct language Eyak. Like Athabascan and Eyak, Tlingit verbal morphology is highly complex. The conjugation of Tlingit verbs is unpredictable in certain respects, making…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)