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In 1924, the Alaska Voter's Literacy Act was passed, which demanded native Alaskan citizens to pass an English literacy test before earning the right to vote. This act further decreased the use of Native Alaska languages. Today, many of the Native Alaskan languages are either on the brink of extinction or already extinct. [6]
For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum .
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 ]
Eteocypriot writing, Amathous, Cyprus, 500–300 BC, Ashmolean Museum. An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. [1] [2] A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol of ethnic identity to an ethnic group; these languages are often undergoing a process of revitalisation. [3]
Languages in Danger categories: This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages ...
The sprachraum of Northern Athabaskan languages spans the interior of Alaska to the Hudson Bay in Canada and from the Arctic Circle to the Canadian-US border. [1] Languages in the group include Dane-zaa , Chipewyan , Babine-Witsuwitʼen , Carrier , and Slavey ;. [ 1 ]
What happened to Alaska's crabs? Between 2018 and 2021, there was an unexpected 92% decline in snow crab abundance, or about 10 billion crabs. The crabs had been plentiful in the years prior ...
Michael E. Krauss (August 15, 1934 – August 11, 2019) [1] was an American linguist, professor emeritus, founder and long-time head of the Alaska Native Language Center.The Alaska Native Language Archive is named after him.