The Santa Fe New Mexican

Mother tongue: "Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans"

"Athabaskan” is a word every New Mexican should know. Here’s why: Athabaskan is a family of languages spoken all around the state by its Apache- and Navajo-speaking tribal members. Beyond the ...
WLRN

When A Language Dies, What Happens To Culture?

Nearly half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world are expected to vanish in the next 100 years. One of them is Athabaskan, a language of the Siletz tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Bud Lane, vice ...
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Athabaskan languages and the schools : a handbook for teachers / written by Chad Thompson ; edited by Jane McGary ; developed by Alaska Department of Education, Bilingual ...

"Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Technical Assistance and Training Programs, grant number G008200907"--Title page verso. Distributed to depository libraries in ...
KRQE Blogs

Legendary New Mexico: Native American Pueblos, Distinct Languages

While there are striking similarities among the 19 Native American Pueblos in the state of New Mexico, there are distinct differences in the languages. With six separate types, Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Keres ...
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Language contact and change in the Americas : studies in honor of Marianne Mithun / edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz, Carmen Jany

Foreword -- Language contact and change in the Americas : the state of the art / Sarah G. Thomason -- North America : California -- Yuki, Pomoan, Wintun, and Athabaskan : language contact in Round ...
Alaska Dispatch News

The language link between central Siberia, Alaska

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in ...