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Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov [1764-1807] was a founder of the Russian-American Company. On a trip to Alaska, sometime around late 1805, he created a comparative word list / dictionary for six of the peoples inhabitating the Aleutian Archipelago and the Northwest Coast of America. The languages as he named them are: Unalaska or basic Aleutian, Kadiak, Kinai, Chugach, the language of the Ugalyakhmut who "constitute a small nation living near Yakutat or Bering Bay, Their language is entirely different from others, though some words they have borrowed from the Kolyuzh contiguous with them. The Kolyuzh or Kalosh extend from Yakutat southward to the Queen Charlotte Islands…" (from a translation of Rezanov's draft text appended to his dictionary). [historical information from the folder].
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| The core of the material is the comparative word lists created by Rezanov. Also in the folder are notes and correspondence of Krauss. |
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