Maps of Ahtna
Canada and Alaska: Languages and Intercommunication (Bakker)
Canada and Alaska: Languages and Intercommunication
Source:
Bakker, Peter and Robert A Papen. 1996. Canada and Alaska: Languages and Intercommunication, in Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, Peter Mühlhäusler, and Darrell Trevor Tryon (Ed) Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. I, Maps. Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Date Digitized: 2010
Map Description:
Illustrated here are a series of boundaries of native American language groups in Canada and Alaska. The arrows indicate directions of communication and cultural or language influence as hypothesized by Bakker and Papen (1996).
Date Digitized: 2010
Map Description:
Illustrated here are a series of boundaries of native American language groups in Canada and Alaska. The arrows indicate directions of communication and cultural or language influence as hypothesized by Bakker and Papen (1996).
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Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Language Stocks in Alaska (Sturtevant)
Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Language Stocks in Alaska
Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Historical Maps of the United States.
Data Source: Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks. The National Atlas of the United States of America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1970.
Map Description:
Illustrated here are the Native American tribes of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands along with their linguistic stocks, as hypothesized by Sturtevant. He notes that tribal distributions depicted are sometimes arbitrary, as the information used to determine them was gathered over a large span of time. He also states that the cultural areas which indicate "minor" tribes that share cultural traits are vaguely classified at times, and that the distribution of many cultural traits does not coincide (Sturtevant).
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Early Major Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Linguistic Stocks (Sturtevant)
Data Source: Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks. The National Atlas of the United States of America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1970.
Map Description:
Illustrated here are the Native American tribes of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands along with their linguistic stocks, as hypothesized by Sturtevant. He notes that tribal distributions depicted are sometimes arbitrary, as the information used to determine them was gathered over a large span of time. He also states that the cultural areas which indicate "minor" tribes that share cultural traits are vaguely classified at times, and that the distribution of many cultural traits does not coincide (Sturtevant).
Other resources related to this project:
Early Major Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Linguistic Stocks (Sturtevant)
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Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in North America, c. 1880 (Donaldson, Fuller and Steinback)
Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in North America, c. 1880
Source: Donaldson, Ben, Fuller, Andrew, and Charles Steinback. 2004. Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific, c. 1880. Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific. ed. by Xanthippe Augerot, USA: University of California Press.Contact: University of California Press
Date Digitized: 9 March 2011
Map Description:
This is a map of indigenous peoples in the North Pacific region of North America circa 1880. The original image appears in the Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific from the University of California Press.
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Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in Asia, c.1880 (Donaldson, Fuller and Steinback)
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Northern North America: Na-Dene: Contemporary
Na-Dene in Contemporary Northern North America
Source:
Golla, Victor, Ives Goddard, Lyle Camplbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2007. North America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 42. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized: May 2010.
Map Description:
The polygons and points represent concentrations of first-language speakers of Na-Dene languages. Polygons represent land or areas primarily occupied by first-language speakers whereas points show communities with varying numbers of speakers.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder, "Northern North America: Contemporary" contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture. In addition, the folder "North America: Contemporary" contains a map showing the southern distribution of Na-Dene languages.
Date Digitized: May 2010.
Map Description:
The polygons and points represent concentrations of first-language speakers of Na-Dene languages. Polygons represent land or areas primarily occupied by first-language speakers whereas points show communities with varying numbers of speakers.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder, "Northern North America: Contemporary" contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture. In addition, the folder "North America: Contemporary" contains a map showing the southern distribution of Na-Dene languages.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. Color selections used in this map are advised by ColorBrewer.
Northern North America: Na-Dene: Time of Contact
Na-Dene in Northern North America at the Time of Contact
Source:
Golla, Victor, Ives Goddard, Lyle Camplbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2007. North America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 41. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized: May 2010.
Map Description:
The polygons represent areas where Na-Dene languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder, "Northern North America: Time of Contact", contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups at the time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture. In addition, the folder "North America: Time of Contact" contains a map showing the southern distribution of Na-Dene languages at the time of contact.
Date Digitized: May 2010.
Map Description:
The polygons represent areas where Na-Dene languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder, "Northern North America: Time of Contact", contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups at the time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture. In addition, the folder "North America: Time of Contact" contains a map showing the southern distribution of Na-Dene languages at the time of contact.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. Color selections used in this map are advised by ColorBrewer.
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages
Map Creator:
LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
| Degree of endangerment | Intergenerational Language Transmission | safe | language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) |
| definitely endangered | children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home |
| severely endangered | language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves |
| critically endangered | the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently |
| extinct | there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s |
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Traditional Languages Spoken in Alaskan Settlements (Dahl)
Traditional Languages Spoken in Alaskan Settlements
Map Creator:
Östen Dahl
Data Source: Various web sources including:
Alaskan Native Language Center
US Census 2000
Contact: Östen Dahl, Stockholm University
Email: oestenling.su.se
Department of Linguistics
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
Date Created: 04-2010
Map Description:
This map displays a collection of modern and historical settlements in Alaska. Each point feature represents a settlement, and is labeled on the map with a 3-letter language code denoting the traditional language spoken by the settlement.
Data Source: Various web sources including:
Alaskan Native Language Center
US Census 2000
Contact: Östen Dahl, Stockholm University
Email: oesten
ling.su.se Department of Linguistics
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
Date Created: 04-2010
Map Description:
This map displays a collection of modern and historical settlements in Alaska. Each point feature represents a settlement, and is labeled on the map with a 3-letter language code denoting the traditional language spoken by the settlement.