Arctic Languages: An AwakeningThis survey of native languages in the Arctic includes the Soviet North, Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Greenland and Scandinavia, with maps and charts of distribution and relationships of the various language groups. |
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Contents
Dirmid R F Collis General Introduction | 15 |
Vassily Uvachan Socioeconomic and Cultural Development | 39 |
Georgy Contemporary Studies of the EskimoAleut | 69 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Arctic Languages: An Awakening |
| Editor | Dirmid R. F. Collis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Unesco, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Apr 26, 2008 |
| ISBN | 9231026615, 9789231026614 |
| Length | 458 pages |
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