Tag: alaska
Alaskans First to Receive Seal of Biliteracy in Native Tongue
The Lower Kuskokwim School District (LKSD) is roughly the size of West Virginia, with 22 schools spread across a remote area of Alaska’s Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. There are no roads, and the...
Alaska Judge Orders Native Language Translations of Election Materials
U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason plans to conduct a 10-day trial this month, in a voting rights lawsuit to translate all election materials into Alaskan Native languages - it has been reported.
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Alaska Senate Passes Native Language Bill
The Alaska Senate voted this morning to make each of Alaska’s native languages, official languages of the state.
Twenty-one indigenous languages, including :Iñupiaq, Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Alutiiq, Unangax?, Dena'ina, Deg Xinag,...
Alaska Home to Rare Russian Dialect
Linguists to compile dictionary from septuagenarian speakers by 2014.
A Russian settlement in Alaska that became isolated from the Russian Empire when the U.S. bought the Alaska Territory in 1867 still speaks a rare Russian...