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SHI Releases Landmark Dictionaries for Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian
from Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 11:19 am
 
SHI RELEASES LANDMARK DICTIONARIES FOR TLINGIT, HAIDA, TSIMSHIAN
First-Ever Alaskan Haida Phrasebook Also Released


Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published a new series of learners' dictionaries for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian languages and the first-ever Alaskan Haida phrasebook.

The dictionaries are the product of years of documentation with assistance from Elders fluent in Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian. The phrasebook was written by Dr. Erma Lawrence, one of the few remaining fluent speakers of Alaskan Haida.

"We've been working on language restoration for nearly 10 to 12 years, and I would say for a greater part of this we’ve been working on these dictionaries. So, they're pretty broad in scope, and to have three of them released all at the same time I think is fairly significant," said SHI President Rosita Worl.

More information is available at:
http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/news/news_article_landmark_dictionaries_phrasebook_released.htm

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