Eskimo-Aleut languages: References & Edit History
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Bibliography, demographic data, and literacy programs are addressed in Dirmid R.F. Collis (ed.), Arctic Languages: An Awakening (1990). Linguistic information may be found in Anthony C. Woodbury, “Eskimo and Aleut Languages,” in William C. Sturtevant (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 5, Arctic, ed. by David Damas (1984), pp. 49–63; Michael Fortescue, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan, Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates (1994); Michael Fortescue, West Greenlandic (1984); Steven Jacobson and Anna W. Jacobson, A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo Language (1995); Joseph de Reuse, Siberian Yupik Eskimo: The Language and Its Contacts with Chukchi (1994); Steven A. Jacobson (compiler), Yup’ik Eskimo Dictionary (1984); and Knut Bergsland (compiler), Aleut Dictionary (1994).
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Knut Bergsland
Emeritus Professor of Finno-Ugric Languages, University of Oslo. Scholar who proved the connection between the Eskimo and Aleut languages. Author of Aleut Dictionary.
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Article History
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| Article thoroughly revised. | Apr 19, 2022 | ||
| Removed table. | Aug 09, 2018 | ||
| Clarified that Inuit means ?the people? or ?the real people.? | Nov 11, 2016 | ||
| Modified title of Web site: Fact Monster - Society - Eskimo-Aleut languages. | Jan 05, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Society - Eskimo-Aleut languages. | Jan 05, 2012 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Oct 19, 1998 |