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Category : Chugach dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Nanwalegmiut Paluwigmiut-llu Nupugnerit
Author: Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Serves as an index to Eric reports [microform].
The Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne MithunPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521298759
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Central Yupi̕k and the Schools
Author: Steven A. JacobsonPublisher:
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Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Handbook designed to assist school districts in providing effective educational services to students from Yup'ik Eskimo language group. Includes recommended readings, listing of school districts enrolling Yup'ik students, and sources of information, materials and instructional assistance.
The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia
Author: Edward VajdaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110556219
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.
Agayut
Author: Birgitte SonnePublisher:
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Category : Eskimo Masks
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This illustrated description and analysis of the masks collected by Knud Rasmussen from the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea off northwest Alaska, includes museum descriptions, Rasmussen's notes, the Hammerich notes and the Ivanoff commentaries. Text in English and Danish.
English Bay and Port Graham Alutiiq Plantlore
Author: Priscilla N. RussellPublisher:
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Category : Chugach Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Journal de la Société finno-ougrienne
Author: Suomalais-ugrilainen SeuraPublisher:
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Category : Finno-Ugric philology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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