Tuesday, November 18, 2008

A Book of Many Unangan Words

Bergsland, K. (1980). Atkan Aleut-English Dictionary. Anchorage: National Bilingual Materials Development Center Rural Education.

This book is a book that I found over at the UAA/APU Consortium Library. It's an older book and I picked it because the Atkan is a dialect of the Unangax language. Atkan dialect is actually the dialect of Unangan that I was taught to speak by a few of the Atka Dancers. This book contains words and phrases in Atkan Dialect Unangax Language.

This book was written by Knut Bergsland with the help of the people from Atka. One of the words in Unangan that I am very familiar with and that is also in this book is what this book is about, Unangam Tunuu, the Aleut Language. I was also taught Eastern Dialect but I find it easier to speak the Atkan Dialect.


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