Arctic Languages: An Awakening
- ISBN-10
- 9231026615
- ISBN-13
- 9789231026614
- Category
- Foreign Language Study / Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Pages
- 458
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- UNESCO
- Author
- Dirmid R. F. Collis
Description
This 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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