The Alaska Native Language Center, established in 1972 in
Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks is a Municipal home rule, home rule city and the county seat, borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior Alaska, interior region of Alaska and the second la ...
, is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of the Native languages of Alaska. It publishes grammars, dictionaries, folklore collections and research materials, as well as hosting an extensive archive of written materials relating to
Eskimo
''Eskimo'' () is a controversial Endonym and exonym, exonym that refers to two closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik peoples, Yupik (or Sibe ...
,
North Athabaskan and related languages. The Center provides training, materials and consultation for educators, researchers and others working with
Alaska Native languages
Alaska Natives are a group of indigenous people that live in the state of Alaska and trace their heritage back to the last two great migrations that occurred thousands of years ago. The Native community can be separated into six large tribes and ...
. The closely affiliated
Alaska Native Language Program
Alaska ( ) is a Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also ...
offers degrees in
Central Yup'ik and
Inupiaq at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-, National Sea Grant College Program, sea-, and National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, space-grant research university in ...
, and works toward the documentation and preservation of these languages.
Language map
In 1974,
Michael Krauss published a language map of Alaska, which he later updated in 1982. It has remained the standard since then. In the summer of 2011, the Alaska Native Language Center made an update to Krauss's map.
One of the biggest reasons for this update was that some of the names of these languages had changed over the years. While there was not a dramatic change in the updated map, the new edition is entirely digital.
Alaska Native languages
*Information in this table was retrieved from the Alaska Native Languages Center
See also
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Alaska Native Language Archive
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Alaska Native languages
Alaska Natives are a group of indigenous people that live in the state of Alaska and trace their heritage back to the last two great migrations that occurred thousands of years ago. The Native community can be separated into six large tribes and ...
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Eskimo–Aleut languages
The Eskaleut ( ), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in the family are indigenous to parts of ...
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Athabaskan languages
Athabaskan ( ; also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large branch of the Na-Dene languages, Na-Dene language family of North America, located in western North America in three areal language ...
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Michael Krauss, ANLC founder
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Dené–Yeniseian languages
References
External links
Alaska Native Language Center website
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1972 establishments in Alaska
Alaska Native culture in Fairbanks
Alaska Native organizations
Education in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Indigenous languages of Alaska
Language education organizations
Linguistic research institutes
Research institutes established in 1972
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Linguists of Na-Dene languages
Linguists of Eskaleut languages