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Russian Influence on Native Alaskan Culture
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Brenckle, Joseph J., Jr. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
This article deals with the influence of Russian on Suk Eskimo, Aleut, and Siberian Yupik mainly in the areas of vocabulary and phonology. (CLK)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Eskimo Aleut Languages
Tsimshian Connectives.
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Dunn, John A. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Describes the connective suffixes used in Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
A Sketch of Kutchin Phonology. Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 7, No. 3, May-June, 1975.
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Scollon, Ronald – 1975
The Kutchins are a group of Athapaskan Indians who live in an area between the East Fork of the Chandalar River in Alaska and the Mackenzie River in Canada. Eight main groups were classified by Osgood (1936) and McKennan (1965) added a ninth group, Chandalar Kutchin. The present study is based on material collected during the summer of 1972 in one…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages, Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis
A Preliminary Descriptive Study of Village Student English Language Ability in the Lake and Peninsula School District With Recommendations For Language Instruction.
Pulu, Tupou L. – 1978
A study was conducted to describe the ability of students to handle the various systems of the English language (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics) and to determine how these systems are being affected by the linguistic environments surrounding the students. The 210 student subjects were enrolled in seven of the schools of the Lake and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Alaska Natives, Elementary Secondary Education, English