Denaakk'e (Koyukon) Class Fall 2013
Dr. Eliza Jones, author of the Koyukon Athabascan Dictionary, will teach a 3-credit conversation class by teleconference in Fall, 2013. Don’t miss this opportunity to study Koyukon with Dr. Jones, without leaving home. Course meets MWTh 5:30-6:30. Register for this distance-delivered course through UAOnline by Sept. 13th or call 907-474-7874 for more information.
Ahtna Place Names Lists & Maps
The 2013 Ahtna Place Names Lists & Maps, version 3.1, is now available at ANLC. This product is sold for $10 only on CD. The CD contains 17 files, including the 2008 Ahtna Place Names Lists report, updated in March 2013. With continued refinements to the 20 drainage-based sections, it lists 2,250 names. The CD also has an index map, two versions of a 6' x 6' map of 98 percent of the Ahtna place names, and 10 regional maps. Version 3.1 is copyrighted by ANLC and Ahtna, Inc. Purchase.
UAF ridge named Troth Yeddha'
The ridge along which the University of Alaska Fairbanks is built now officially carries the name Troth Yeddha, or Indian Potato Ridge.
The name was approved Feb. 14 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The ridge previously had no official name. [link to official GNIS entry]
Tanacross Dictionary App
The Tanacross Learner's Dictionary (originally published in print form in 2008)
is now available as an App for iPhone/iPod. Like the print dictionary, the mobile
app is a reference for anyone wanting to learn the spoken Tanacross language.
The subject matter and the level of complexity are varied enough to make the dictionary a useful resource for a wide range of users, from people who know nothing of the language to people already know some words and phrases or have heard the language being spoken by their parents or grandparents. The dictionary consists of about 2000 English entry words with nearly 4500 Tanacross words and example sentences and links to about 3800 audio recordings of the Tanacross words and sentences.
Audio files are embedded in the App and do not require wi-fi or 3G to play.
Mount McKinley or Denali?
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has proposed officially giving the name Denali to the continent's tallest peak, Mount McKinley. Shem Pete's Alaska, a book by James Kari and James Fall published in 2003 by the University of Alaska Press, has a three-page section, "Names for Denali/Mt. McKinley in Alaska Native Languages." [download]
Alaska Native language survey
The Alaska Native Heritage Center is researching Alaska's language needs and resources. If you'd like to help, you can find the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/anhclanguagesurvey
New Publications
Publications catalog,
2013
Download the Alaska Native Language Center's catalog for a full view of our books and music.
Download the catalog. (PDF, 4 MB)
Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary, Second Edition
The second edition of the Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary has arrived from the printer. This is the greatly expanded, two-volume edition of Professor Steven A. Jacobon's well-known dictionary, first published in 1988. The cost for the two-volume set is $50.
Volume 1 contains the introduction and bases. Volume 2 contains the postbases, endings and enclitics, loan words, and English-to-Yup'ik index.
Lower Tanana Athabascan Place Names
More than a thousand place names in the Lower Tanana Athabascan language are identified. A CD and a print version of the book list the locations and explain the meaning of the names and discuss how they were derived. Large maps that accompany the book and CD are available separately from Date-Line Digital Printing in Fairbanks. The CD and book are for sale at $10 each from the ANLC. [Buy]
Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska [map]
A new edition of the groundbreaking map showing the indigenous language regions of Alaska—and related languages of neighboring areas of Canada and Russia—is now available. Native villages now are identified in the local language as well as in English. It is the first revision in nearly 30 years. The map, generated with geographic information system (GIS) technology, is the joint product of the Alaska Native Language Center and UAA’s Institute of Social and Economic Research. This work updates the map originally compiled in 1974 by former ANLC Director Michael Krauss and last updated in 1982. [Buy]
[Download a smaller, free version suitable for PowerPoint and classroom/office presentations]
Announcements
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Troth Yeddha' News and Information
The University of Alaska supports the adoption of the Lower Tanana name Troth Yeddha' for the ridge on which UAF stands. Read about Troth Yeddha' and how the name came about. -
Focus Group on Language Revitalization
Learn more about how Native and non-Native scholars are studying the dynamics of language revitalization. A list of programs concerned with revitalization is offered, as is a PowerPoint presentation on Alaska Native languages. -
Yup'ik immersion
UAF's Applied Linguistics program and the Lower Kuskokwim and Lower Yukon School Districts have launched a new site, Piciryaramta Elicungcallra, about language immersion and programming. -
New Iñupiaq-English dictionary
Edna MacLean's new Iñupiaq-to-English dictionary is available in the Alaska Native Language Archive. - Dene-Yeniseian Connection at ANLC
For information about the Dene-Yeniseian languages visit the Dene-Yeniseian page. The ANLC sponsored a Dene-Yeniseian workshop on March 24 at UAF and a public lecture on March 27 by Professor Edward Vajda, whose work has illuminated the similarities between the languages of the Ket people and North America's Tlingit, Eyak, and Na-Dene peoples. Workshop homepage. - Language Blog
The Talking Alaska blog provides reflections on Alaska's Native languages.
About the ANLC
The Alaska Native Language Center was established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for the documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages. [Mission statement]
Contact the ANLC
Information and book orders: uaf-aknativelang@alaska.edu
Mailing address: PO Box 757680, Fairbanks, AK 99775
Street address: 305 Tanana Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775
Phone: 907-474-7874 | Fax 907-474-6586