Text Links: Aleut | Athabaskan Languages | Iñupiaq | Tlingit | Tsimshian | Yup'ik
Some features of Alaskool's Alaska Native language resources and tools
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.
