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	Tlingit language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tlingit is currently classified as a distinct and separate branch of the Na-Dené family of North American languages, with its closest relative being Eyak.
		The Tlingit language is distributed from near the mouth of the Copper River down the open coast of the Gulf of Alaska and throughout almost all of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.
		Tlingit was until the late 1960s written exclusively in phonetic transcription in the works of linguists and anthropologists, except for a little known Cyrillic alphabet used for publications by the Russian Orthodox Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tlingit_language (1523 words)

	Tlingit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tlingit are a matrilineal society who developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago.
		The Tlingit language is well known not only for its complex grammar and sound system but also for using certain phonemes which are not heard in almost any other human language.
		The Interior Tlingit live along the large interior lakes and the drainage of the Taku River, and subsist in a manner similar to their Athabascan neighbors in the mixed spruce taiga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tlingit (10143 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tlingit language
		The Indo-European languages are a group of several hundred languages and dialects (specifically 443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Asia, which belong to a single superfamily.
		Tlingit is currently classified as a distinct and separate branch of the Na-Dene family of North American languages, with its closest relative being Eyak.
		Tlingit is the language of coastal Southeastern Alaska from Yakutat south to Ketchikan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tlingit-language (3631 words)

	Tlingit language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Tlingit is very endangered, with about 500 native speakers still living, essentially all of whom are bilingualor near-bilingual in English.
		Tlingit is a tonal language, and has two tones, neutral (usuallycalled 'low') and high.
		Tlingit was until the late 1960s written exclusively in phonetic transcription in the works of linguists and anthropologists.A number of amateur anthropologists doing extensive work on the Tlingit had no training in linguistics whatsoever and leftnumerous samples in vague and inconsistent transcriptions, the most famous being George T. Emmons.
	www.therfcc.org /tlingit-language-70971.html (479 words)

	Tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Tlingit language is spoken primarily in the communities of Carcross and Teslin, Yukon.
		Tlingit is spoken as well by the native people living in the Atlin, B.C. area, and by large numbers of Alaskan natives who live in coastal settlements stretching along the Alaskan panhandle from Yakutat to Ketchikan.
		Tlingit is distantly related to Eyak (an extinct language from the Alaskan coast) and to the Athapaskan family.
	www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /ynlc/YNLCinfo/Tlingit.html (511 words)

	Tlingit - Arctic Studies Center
		Nobility and rank are prominently displayed in the clothing and accoutrements of this Tlingit chief, seen with his ceremonial staff as he might look presiding at a potlatch.
		According to linguists, the Tlingit language may have split from common roots with Athapaskan about 5,000 years ago.
		Tlingit traditions tell of small family groups venturing in boats or rafts down the rivers under the glaciers that once arched over the waters, suggesting how early migration might have come from the interior, to mix with resident coastal populations.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads/tlingit.html (322 words)

	Alaska Native Heritage Center
		Traditional Tlingit territory in Alaska includes the Southeast panhandle between Icy Bay in the north to the Dixon Entrance in the south.
		In the Tlingit clan system, one moiety was known as Raven or Crow, the other moiety as Eagle or Wolf depending upon the time period.
		The Eyak, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian are known for a ceremony called the “potlatch” and feasts.
	www.alaskanative.net /38.asp (1920 words)

	American Indian Language Resources
		Alaska Native Language Center Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages.
		Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas The Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas.
		Indigenous Language Institute The ILI collaborates with indigenous communities to reviatlize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas
	www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/lang.html (1693 words)

	Issues No.155
		Since Tlingit was not originally a written language, Rowan and company are trying to record as much of it as possible by translating just about anything they can get their hands on into Tlingit, from Christmas carols like Jingle Bells to nursery rhymes such as Hickory Dickory Dock.
		Language nests provide a fun, home-like environment for children under the age of five, where they are intensively exposed to the Maori language.
		But the efforts of communities as diverse as the Tlingit and the Krenak show that it is still possible for small groups of determined individuals to confound the forces of globalization and mass culture that are the prime architects of today's Tower of Babel.
	www.globaled.org /issues/155/c.html (2966 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TLI
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		There is growing interest in the language among the population.
		English is the first or second language of the ethnic group.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=TLI (153 words)

	The Tlingit Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It is a colorful array of languages spoken in Alaska, some of them expressions of cultures that create the famous ‘totem poles.’ Let us focus on only one, the language called Tlingit (rhymes with ‘drink it’), spoken in the southeast Alaskan ‘panhandle’ on into the Canadian provinces of Yukon and northwestern British Columbia.
		Tlingit society by long tradition is divided into two halves called moieties, each of which comprises a number of clans.
		In this instance it is not hard to imagine that, when Tlingit society loses the language on which the whole cultural and spiritual system is based - the ‘cement’ that binds it together - its whole traditional social and belief system is in danger of collapsing.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/tlingit.htm (858 words)

	Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian
		The Traditional Tlingit Map and Tribal List is a project of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation, the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, and the Alaska Federation of Natives with grant funding provided by the National Science Foundation.
		She and her husband Albert have developed several resources for the Tlingit language and education.
		The languages represented are Iñupiaq, Aleut, Tlingit, Athabascan, and Yup'ik.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /southeast.html (924 words)

	Lingít Yoo X̱'atángi: The Tlingit Language
		Tlingit, or Lingít, is the ancestral language of the Tlingit people.
		Given the fact that Tlingit is spoken over such a wide territory, it is not surprising that there are a number of different dialects of the language.
		Tlingit is also taught on a regular basis at the Juneau campus of the University of Alaska Southeast.
	www.tlingitlanguage.org (345 words)

	Tlingit -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		They were speakers of the Tlingit language, which is believed to be related to Athabascan.
		The area was originally inhabited by Tlingit Indians, and its name derives from the Tlingit word Skagua, meaning “the Place Where the North Wind Blows.” Skagway was...
		The Chilkat and the Tlingit of the Pacific Northwest are known for the extreme delicacy of their twined...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072686 (658 words)

	Sealaska - Programs -Language & Culture - Tlingit Language Immersion Camps
		The goal is to increase Tlingit fluency and to mentor aspiring Tlingit teachers.
		SHI in 2002 summer held its first Tlingit immersion retreat, as part of its ongoing efforts to revitalize and perpetuate Native languages.
		The Tlingit-only rule was vital because it allowed students to have constant exposure to the rhythm of the language in casual conversation, as opposed to a formal class setting.
	www.sealaskaheritage.org /programs/tlingit_immersion_retreat.htm (290 words)

	Lingit (Tlingit) Language
		The Tlingit language is spoken along the Alaska panhandle.
		Finally, Tlingit is most unique in that the period 〈.〉 is a letter of the alphabet, representing a glottal stop.
		According to the 1990 U.S. Census, there are 1088 Tlingit speakers in the United States, the Canadian Census counts 230 speakers.
	www.languagegeek.com /isolate/tlingit.html (346 words)

	Tlingit language resources on www.Alaskool.org
		In English and also written in a special form of Tlingit language that has helped illuminate linguistic history of Tlingit speech.
		A game using audio files of Tlingit sounds for teachers and students to help learn how to speak the Tlingit language.
		Language Lessons of two-disc study set containing CD audio recordings of Tlingit Language and Lullabies created at Dog Point Fish Camp by Robbie Littlefied, Native American Indian Values Enrichment, Inc. (NATIVE, Inc.), Sitka, Alaska.
	www.alaskool.org /language/indexing/tlingindex.htm (264 words)

	Poetics and Politics
		In addition to writing her own poetry, she has become deeply engaged in the enormous task of maintaining and preserving the traditions of Tlingit culture.
		Dauenhauer says that her interest in working with the Tlingit oral tradition began after she'd raised her children and gone back to attend college.
		English is the money language." Still, such changes don't threaten Dauenhauer's feelings about the integrity of her culture.
	www.coh.arizona.edu /english/poetics/dauenhauer/dauenhauer_weekly.htm (631 words)

	Canku Ota - Oct. 21, 2000 - Tlingit Teacher Passes on Language, Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		At her retirement party, she was rewarded with her students speaking the language.
		Wren was one of the first language instructors in the Yukon.
		She is fluent in Tlingit, Tagish and Southern Tuchone.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co10212000/CO_10212000_Tlingit.htm (595 words)

	The Seattle Times: Living: Wrapped in tradition: a union of two people, their families and clans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Lorene Hanlon, left, and David Boxley are enveloped in a large wool blanket, a moment drawn from Tlingit tradition signifying the strength of their union.
		Hanlon, of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska, is a dancer, weaver, bead-worker and native-language instructor.
		Later, in a moment drawn from Tlingit tradition, members of Hanlon's tribe draped a large wool blanket over the bride and groom together, signifying the strength of the union.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/living/2001937416_wedding25.html (1401 words)

	ACF Administration for Native Americans: ANA Success Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In 1996, the Oneida Language Revitalization Program was created in response to the declining number of tribal members that spoke Oneida as their first language.
		The funding will be used to increase Tlingit language fluency in students and to train aspiring Native language teachers to operate immersion programs.
		The first Tlingit immersion retreat was held in summer of 2003 as part of the ongoing efforts to revitalize and perpetuate Native languages.
	www.acf.dhhs.gov /programs/ana/programs/success.html (1238 words)

	WordRidden: The Journal - Tlingit
		Since my interest in endangered languages is a lot stronger and deeper now than it was five years ago, I promptly embarked on an Internet odyssey to find out everything I could about the Tlingit language before going to Alaska again, in the hopes of maybe being able to talk to Mr.
		It doesn't take a linguist to figure out that a language with just a few hundred speakers - all of whom are presumably already bilingual and none of whom are children growing up with the language as their mother tongue - does not have particularly good prospects.
		Maybe Tlingit can't be saved, but as this very good, short essay on language revival puts it, "It may be true that once a language is dead it is dead forever, but some kinds of dead are clearly preferable to others."
	www.wordridden.com /journal.php/20050402103537.xml (776 words)

	Tlingit Art and Culture: Most Tlingit are now Christian with traditional ceremonies performed mainly for tourists??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Some of the Tlingit people lived by the water and some by the woods.
		The Tlingit people would paint animals and birds on their houses.
		Most Tlingit are now Christian, with traditional ceremonies performed mainly for tourists...
	www.tlingitculture.com /2005/04/most-tlingit-are-now-christian-with.html (194 words)

	Language Museum - Tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Tlingit tribe is one of the Athapascan tribes.
		It is told in some of the Tlingit legends that during Noah's flood the Athapascan tribe, as the waters subsided, landed in the area of the Arctic Circle.
		The theory of many writers is that the Athapascans came across the Bering ice bridge.
	www.language-museum.com /t/tlingit.htm (92 words)

	Dying Languages: Globalization, Culture and Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		European languages in danger of disappearing include the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and Brittany in France; several Lappish languages in Scandinavia; various Romani (Gypsy) tongues, and numerous indigenous languages in the former Soviet Union.
		The Khoisan language group, for example, to which the Hottentot and Bushman tongues belong, is almost extinct.
		In Australia, one of the areas where language extinction has exacted the heaviest toll, few of the surviving 250 or so Aboriginal languages are still viable.
	www.columbia.edu /~gfh6/vanishing.html (3404 words)

	Tlingit National Anthem, Alaska Native and Native American resources
		Tlingit National Anthem - "This is the story of the Tlingit National Anthem, a song that entwines our people with their past and keeps our ancient heritage alive.
		At potlatch ceremonies, Tlingit elders sing the anthem and tell how it came about-for many years in secret, for this ritual was long forbidden by the government-always passing the story on to the new generations." Robert Willard Jr.
		Tlingit storyteller and lecturer Jeri Nordstrom, aka KaNiekTlaa, and her son Shamseddin Williams of the Raven clan attend The First Americans Festival procession on the National Mall.
	cooday8.tripod.com /alaska.htm (4285 words)

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		The name for the language and people of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, and Prince William Sound.
		Athabascan (Athabaskan, Athapaskan): Three variants of the spelling of the name of the people and their language family who historically lived in the interior of Alaska.
		A men’s house or community house where men worked during the day, in some villages slept at night, and where community ceremonies and celebrations were held.
	www.akhistory.org /index.cfm?FuseAction=Glossary (555 words)

	Language Miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In the formal written language we don’t usually combine two or more of them together, though occasionally we might say may need to or might be able to.
		The language is full of this kind of pussy-footing, some of which you may not even recognize as such.
		It is a colorful array of languages spoken in Alaska.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin (1195 words)

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