Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 21, 2000, 6:45 |
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Mike Adams wrote:
>Alaska
>We have some 7 native lingos here, not including the ones from outside,
>and they are many.
>(Aleut/Inupiaq/Yupik/Siberian/Yupik=Eskimo/Aleut),
>(Gwichin/Kuyukon=Athabaskan)
>Tlinghit/Haida/Tsimshin=unrelated and others that I forget. Some are
>dielects of the others. Some are hardly spoken any more but..
Only 7? According to the map on my wall you have forgotten Holikachuk, Upper
Kushokwim, Koyukon, Kutchin, Tanaina, and Ahtna. Are some of these dead now?
I know Tanaina and Ahtna are still around, but I don't know about the rest.
(And alas for Eyak which finally died off sometime during the last 6 years,
though I don't remember exactly when the last speaker died).
Marcus