Maps of Ne-Dene
Amerind, Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut
Amerind, Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut
Source: Greenberg, Joseph H. 1987. Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 387.
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Digitized January 2010.
Map Description:
This map illustrates Joseph Greenberg's 1987 classification of native languages in the Americas. Greenberg (REF) hypothesizes that there are only three language families in the Americas. This is still a controversial claim.
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Digitized January 2010.
Map Description:
This map illustrates Joseph Greenberg's 1987 classification of native languages in the Americas. Greenberg (REF) hypothesizes that there are only three language families in the Americas. This is still a controversial claim.
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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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North America: Ancient America
North America: Ancient America
Source:
Coe, Michael, Dean Snow and Elizabeth Benson (Eds.). 1986. Atlas of Ancient America. Oxford: Facts on File Publications.
Copyright Status: 1986
Date Digitized: April 2011
Map Description:
Based on anthropologists’ traditional division of North American Indian culture areas and the most conservative classification of American Indian languages, there are four large culture areas with three major language families in northern North America. The Arctic, a single culture area, is dominated by Eskimo-Aleut language speakers. The Western Subarctic is the area of Na-Dene languages, while the Eastern Subarctic culture speaks Algonquian-Ritwan languages. Northwest Coast includes the culture area with Na-Dene and smaller language families. However, it is noteworthy that the Salishan language is not discussed as a major family.
Copyright Status: 1986
Date Digitized: April 2011
Map Description:
Based on anthropologists’ traditional division of North American Indian culture areas and the most conservative classification of American Indian languages, there are four large culture areas with three major language families in northern North America. The Arctic, a single culture area, is dominated by Eskimo-Aleut language speakers. The Western Subarctic is the area of Na-Dene languages, while the Eastern Subarctic culture speaks Algonquian-Ritwan languages. Northwest Coast includes the culture area with Na-Dene and smaller language families. However, it is noteworthy that the Salishan language is not discussed as a major family.
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imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration
process.
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map(s).
North America: Languages of Canada and Alaska (PROEL)
Languages of Canada and Alaska
Source:
The Proel Map of Canada and Alaska
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Downloaded: 01/01/2010
Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of languages and language families in Canada and Alaska.
More information on the individual languages and language families can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Downloaded: 01/01/2010
Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of languages and language families in Canada and Alaska.
More information on the individual languages and language families can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.
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. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).