Here's a blast from the past. This document is the first proposal to the University of Alaska calling for the establishment of a program in Alaska Native Languages. It is dated Dec 1960. It would be twelve more years before the Alaska Native Language Center would be created by state legislation. Written by ANLC founder Michael Krauss, the memo recognizes the already extremely endangered status of Alaska's Native languages some 50 years ago, noting that "if the University does not initiate a linguistic research program soon, much of the data will be lost forever." The memo also recognizes the role of the University of Alaska in providing leadership and training in the field of Alaska Native languages.
See item G961K1960
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Important new collection of comparative Athabaskan materials
Leer materials being processed |
The Archive has just received an important new collection of Jeff Leer's notes on comparative Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit. These materials documents Leer's extensive work on reconstructing the history of the Athabaskan, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Materials are scheduled to be scanned in April 2011. I'll post another announcement once the scanned materials are available.
"Tlingit onset deaspiration hypothesis" |
Monday, March 21, 2011
ANLA in Goldmine
Lisa Smith providing on-site training in the use of SirsiDynix WorkFlows |
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
New book: "We are our language"
We just acquired a copy of Barbra Meek's new book We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabascan Community. It's a study of the sociolinguistics of language revitalization in Kaska, a Canadian Athabaskan language. Cataloged as CN001M2010.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Open Language Archive Community
After a several year hiatus, the Archive catalog is once again registered with the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). This allows the catalog to be searched remotely via any service provider compliant with the OLAC protocol. In particular, users may search for Alaska Native language resources across a federation of dedicated language archives.
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