The whole Eskimo-Aleut family, and also all Alaskan languages are shown.
A twenty-one year-old French man hopes to rescue Eyak, an Alaskan language, from extinction.
"Should we mourn the loss of Eyak," an Alaskan language, "or Ubykh less than the loss of the panda or the California condor?"
Indigenous names for the mountain can be found in seven different Alaskan languages.
Because Native Alaskan languages are somewhat staccato in nature and makes heavy of the "kh" sound, sound recordists initially had trouble recording native speech.
Wrangell's 1839 Comparative Word-List of Alaskan languages (includes Copper River Ahtna)
Wrangell's 1839 Comparative Word-List of Alaskan languages (includes Eyak)
"The Story of the Town Bear and Forest Bear" is the first book written entirely in Tlingit, a native Alaskan language.
Sapir continued work on Athabascan, working with two speakers of the Alaskan languages Kutchin and Ingalik.
Eyak was then already the most endangered of the Alaskan languages, and Krauss' work is all the more notable considering that it represents what today might be considered salvage linguistics.