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  2. Alaska Native languages - Wikipedia

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    Still, Native Alaskan languages remained the dominant languages spoken in Alaska. It was only after American colonization when missionary, and later General Agent of Education of the Territory of Alaska, Sheldon Jackson, arrived in Alaska in 1877, did the use of native Alaska languages start to plummet. Jackson implemented an "English Only ...

  3. Eskaleut languages - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Native Language Center believes that the common ancestral language of the Eskimoan languages and of Aleut divided into the Eskimoan and Aleut branches at least 4,000 years ago. [3] [6] [7] The Eskimoan language family split into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1,000 years ago. [6]

  4. Aleut language - Wikipedia

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    Similarly to the native languages of California, the native languages of Alaska had been given little attention from the United States government. While linguists are working to record and document the language, the local Aleutian community groups are striving to preserve their language and culture by assisting the linguists and raising ...

  5. Tlingit language - Wikipedia

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    The Tlingit language (English: / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ k ɪ t / ⓘ KLING-kit; [5] Lingít Tlingit pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) [6] is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family.

  6. Yupik languages - Wikipedia

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    The Yupik languages (/ ˈ juː p ɪ k / [1]) are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka.The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one of the languages may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages.

  7. Central Alaskan Yupʼik - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Native Language Center and Jacobson's (1995) learner's grammar use Central (Alaskan) Yup'ik, which can be seen as a hybrid of the former two terms; there is, however, potential for confusion here: Central (Alaskan) Yup'ik may refer to either the language as a whole, or the geographically central dialect of the language, more commonly ...

  8. Alaskan Russian - Wikipedia

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    Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska since the Russian colonial period. Today it is prevalent on Kodiak Island and in Ninilchik (Kenai Peninsula), Alaska; it has been isolated from other varieties of Russian for over a century. [1]

  9. Iñupiaq language - Wikipedia

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    Iñupiaq or Inupiaq (/ ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ k / ih-NOO-pee-ak, Inupiaq:), also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat (/ ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ t / ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada.