Maps of Tanana

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).


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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.


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.


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.