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Book Alaskan Eskimo Words

Download or read book Alaskan Eskimo Words written by Knud Rasmussen and published by Copenhagen : Gyldendal. This book was released on 1941 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaskan Eskimo Words

Download or read book Alaskan Eskimo Words written by Knud Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language

Download or read book The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language written by Geoffrey K. Pullum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."

Book Yup  ik Eskimo Dictionary

Download or read book Yup ik Eskimo Dictionary written by and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 2012 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialects. Over these decades, Jacobson has combed through records of explorers, linguists, missionaries, and anyone who has come in contact with the actively migratory Yup'ik people. Combined with information from native Yup'ik speakers, that research has led to a richly detailed dictionary that covers the entire language and all its dialects. The dictionary also offers sections on Yup'ik spelling, early vocabulary, demonstrative words, and important intersections of Yup'ik language and culture such as the kayak, dogsled, parka, and old-style dwellings.

Book Alaskan Eskimo Words

    Book Details:
  • Author : Knud Rasmussen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1941
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Alaskan Eskimo Words written by Knud Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup ik Eskimo Language

Download or read book A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup ik Eskimo Language written by Steven A. Jacobson and published by Utopia. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Words of the Inuit

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  • Author : Louis-Jacques Dorais
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2020-09-18
  • ISBN : 0887558631
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Words of the Inuit written by Louis-Jacques Dorais and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Words of the Inuit" is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings. Inuit words are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small units of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical and semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they reliably evince connections and underlying significations that allow for an in-depth reflection on the richness of Inuit linguistic and cultural heritage and identity. An appendix on the polysynthetic character of Inuit languages includes more detailed grammatical description of interest to more specialist readers. Organized thematically, the book tours the histories and meanings of the words to illuminate numerous aspects of Inuit culture, including environment and the land; animals and subsistence activities; humans and spirits; family, kinship, and naming; the human body; and socializing with other people in the contemporary world. It concludes with a reflection on the usefulness for modern Inuit—especially youth and others looking to strengthen their cultural identity —to know about the underlying meanings embedded in their language and culture. With recent reports alerting us to the declining use of the Inuit language in the North, "Words of the Inuit" is a timely contribution to understanding one of the world’s most resilient Indigenous languages.

Book Eskimo  Inuktitut  Dictionary

Download or read book Eskimo Inuktitut Dictionary written by Arthur Thibert and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inuktitut dialect of Inuit, a member of the Eskimo-Aleut language family, is spoken by over 30,000 natives of eastern Canada, including Quebec and Nunavut. It is easily understood throughout the Inuit communities of Canada, Greenland, and northern Alaska. This unique dictionary encompasses almost every word spoken by the Inuit peoples of North America, including a good many ways to say snow, though fewer than rumoured. Care had been taken to include terms unique to particular Inuit communities. Readers will also find special grammar appendices, a introduction to the language's writing system, and sections with family terms and geographic names. All entries have been romanised for easy use.

Book Handbook of American Indian Languages

Download or read book Handbook of American Indian Languages written by Franz Boas and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Yup ik  Central Eskimo  Language Guide  and more

Download or read book Yup ik Central Eskimo Language Guide and more written by Terryl Miller and published by World Friendship Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Hundred Eskimo Words

Download or read book Five Hundred Eskimo Words written by Kaj Birket-Smith and published by Copenhagen : Gyldendalske boghandel. This book was released on 1928 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grammar and Vocabulary of the Eskimo Language of North western Alaska  Kuskoquim District

Download or read book Grammar and Vocabulary of the Eskimo Language of North western Alaska Kuskoquim District written by Augustus Schultze and published by Bethlehem, Pa. : Moravian Publication Office. This book was released on 1894 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis written by Michael Fortescue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common, such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence, while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial features.

Book Comparative Eskimo Dictionary

Download or read book Comparative Eskimo Dictionary written by Michael D. Fortescue and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compares cognates found in the modern Eskimo languages ranging from northeastern Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland. Includes five Inuit dialect groups, the four Yupik languages, and Sirenikski. Aleut cognates are added when available"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Language of the Inuit

Download or read book The Language of the Inuit written by Louis-Jacques Dorais and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.

Book Words of the Real People

Download or read book Words of the Real People written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the oral literature, poetry, and life stories of Alaska's Native speakers of Yupik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, including ancient tales spanning generations as well as new traditions, accompanied by essays on each Native group's background.--(Source of description unspecified.)

Book Always Getting Ready

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  • Author : James H. Barker
  • Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780295972350
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Always Getting Ready written by James H. Barker and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic record of the contemporary lives of Yup'ik people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska, demonstrating integration of traditional and 'outside' lifestyles.