International Polar Year
On three occasions, over the past 125 years, scientists from around the world have banded together to organize concentrated scientific and exploring programs in the polar region. Each polar year was a hallmark of international cooperation in science.
This International Polar Year (IPY) project is researching languages that are unique and critical components of the Arctic environment. Our goal is the documentation of this acutely endangered diversity.
The aim is to advance knowledge concerning these indigenous languages in Alaska or neighboring to Alaska.
Collaborators
During the next three years, the principal investigator, Michael Krauss will be preparing the grammar and lexicon of the Eyak language as well as lead an international team of veteran linguists from Alaska, Belgium, Canada, Japan, Russia and the United States.
Evgenii Golovko - St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Acadmey of Sciences; European University at St. Petersburg
- Kodiak Russian Creole (documentation)
- Atuuan Aleut (documentation)
Steven Jacobson - Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Central Alaskan Yup'ik (lexicon)
- Central Siberian Yup'ik (lexicon)
Andrej Kibrik - Moscow Institute forLinguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University
- Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan (grammar and lexicon)
Jeff Leer - Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Alutiiq (lexicon)
- Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon
- Tlingit (lexicon)
Edna Ahgeak MacLean - Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks, Language Specialist
- North Slope Inupiaq (lexicon)
Osahito Miyaoka - Osaka Gakuin University -retired
- Central Alaskan Yup'ik (grammar)
Willem J. de Reuse - University of North Texas, Linguistic Consultant
- Han Athabaskan (lexicon)
John Ritter - Yukon Native Language Center, Language Specialist
- Alaska - Yukon Border Athabaskan (documentation)
Marie-Lucie Tarpent - Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
- Penutian