New digital version of Petitot's 1876 Gwich'in dictionary available

Thanks to the efforts of Chris Cannon a new scan of Emile Petitot's 1876 comparative Gwich'in - Hare - Dene Sųłine dictionary is now available. While this manuscript has been available digitally from other sources, the low resolution of those scans can make it difficult to read. This version is sufficiently high-resolution to make the material more legible.

Download ANLA item KU863P1876

Conor Daly papers on Alaska Russian

Thanks to Conor Daly we have just received a collection of papers on Alaska Russian. The collection can be accessed at:

http://www.uaf.edu/anla/item.xml?id=RU985D1985

Eyak Qualifiers

A major new chapter on Eyak grammar is now available. The 92 page draft manuscript by Michael Krauss entitled Eyak Qualifiers can be downloaded as part of item CA961K2009.

Recent publication on comparative Eskimo-Aleut

Michael Krauss brought my attention to a recent paper on comparative Eskimo-Aleut by José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Alaskans may not be familiar with the work of this Spanish scholar, who has been making an important contribution to Eskimo-Aleut linguistics. The paper is entitled Proto-Eskimo-Aleut */ə/ and the Origin of Aleut Pre-Aspirated Consonants. The abstract follows:

The aim of this paper is to analyze several points of the Aleut historical phonology which up till now had not received enough attention. The programmed agenda comprises: (I) Proto-Eskimo-Aleut */ə/; (II) the pre-aspiration; (III) the Proto-Eskimo-Aleut sequences */-nə-/ and */-ŋə-/, and (IV) Aleut lexicon containing x̣- (γ.-). An ideal understanding of these processes shall help to the reconstruction of the Proto-Aleut language, an issue totally rejected in the specialized literature.

The paper is published in Revista Española de Antropología Americana (40.1, 2010) and can  be downloaded here.

Orthodox Russian texts

Several Orthodox Russian texts in the Archive have been digitally typeset by the All Saints of North America Orthodox Church. These include materials in Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, and Yup'ik language. The materials can be accessed directly via the ASNA website or via the ANLA catalog.