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Alaska Native Languages
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(based on Alaska Native Language Center's Native People and Languages of Alaska map)

Text Links: Aleut | Athabaskan Languages | Iñupiaq | Tlingit | Tsimshian | Yup'ik

Some features of Alaskool's Alaska Native language resources and tools
Alaskool's free Alaska Native language fonts: Iñupiaq and Unangam Tunuu (Aleut)
Online dictionaries: Iñupiaq, Tlingit Nouns
Online phrasebooks and phrase/word lists: Iñupiaq, Cup'ik, Unangam
Language Resouces and Revitalization Efforts for Alaska Native Languages


But wait - there's more!
Check out the index page for each of the languages by clicking on the map or text links above, and to see Alaska Native languages in action, visit the Literature section.

Check out the new and improved interactive
Alaska Native Language Map!



Linguistic discussion
Many Tongues- Ancient Tales
Discussion of whether American languages came from Asia, and links between specific families. Article written by Michael E. Krauss which originally appeared in Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell, Smithsonian Institution, September 1988.

Language Links
Alaska Native Language Center (UAF) Web Pages
Alaska Native Languages
A map of how major Alaska Native Language groups relate to one another, plus a clickable map leading to brief descriptions of each language.
Comparative Yup'ik and Inuit
Article by ANLC director Larry Kaplan, discussing sound system, grammatical structure and phonological differences between Inuit and Yupik languages.
Common Expressions in Alaska Native Languages
Basic everyday expressions for major language groups.

Other Language Links
KNBA 90.3 FM - Native Word of the Day Archives
Collection of words and short phrases spoken in a variety of indigenous languages.
Denaqenage' Career Ladder Program
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) offers a program where students "earn credit toward a Master of Education degree in the area of Language and Literacy by combining course work for the endorsement in Athabascan Language Education with six graduate courses and completing a research synthesizing paper." click to find out more about this and other programs offered by the ANLC in Fairbanks, AK
Yukon Native Language Centre
Gwich'in, Hän, Kaska, Northern Tutchone, Southern Tutchone, Tagish, Tlingit, Upper Tanana language curricula and teaching materials.