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Languages of the Far North


Acronyms and Abbreviations
They simplify writing and complicate comprehension - search almost 18,000 of them for the meaning.

Transparent Language

Cyrillic Alphabet
A list of all 33 letters, with their phonetical pronunciation, and audio clips.

Dictionaries: Multilingual
A vast array of dictionaries, but all very small (ca. 1,500 words).

Eskimo/Inuit - Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: With Aleut Cognates
Alaska Native Language Center Research Paper, No. 9; 614 pages.

Ethnologue - Languages of the World
A massive, easy to use catalogue of 6,700 languages in 228 countries, including a very interesting language family index.

Foreign Language Study eBooks
Download a book today - 69,000 popular, professional and academic ebooks from the world's leading publishers at eBooks.com.

Gwich'in Language
The community of Old Crow has a brief introduction to the language, and a dozen MP3 clips of Gwich'in phrases.

How to Speak Alaskan
A look at some of the odd terms used by Alaskans, from the book by Mike Doogan and Jamie Smith.

Iņupiat Eskimo Dictionary
An interactiive dictionary, Iņupiat-English and English-Iņupiat.

Inuktitut Dictionary
An interactiive dictionary, English-Inuktitut.

Inuktitut Font
Download Inuit syllabics font sets for free.

KOI8-R - Russian Net Character Set
An extensive resource for setting up your computer and browser to read Cyrillic characters.

The Swedish Academy Dictionary Project
Work on one of the world's largest dictionary projects was started in 1884 and it will be completed by 2017.

Swedish-English-Swedish Dictionary
Not very accurate.

Ural-Altaic Languages
A lengthy paper Robert Austerlitz, describing some features of these languages, which, despite an enormous geographic range, share many features.

Uralic Languages
A simple listing of the 30 major languages and dialects of the Ural region, with sub-tables of dozens of Nenet and Selkup dialects.

Yukon Native Language Centre
An extensive resource centre for the 8 Yukon languages, including such useful features as sound clips.


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