Nutemllaq. In Yup'ik that means 'it's traditional'. But tradition need not mean ignoring the power of new web technologies, the so-called Web 2.0. An example of this is the wonderful Numtellaq web site, which includes a short Yup'ik language lesson, Yugtun 001. User-generated content is a sure sign that Alaska Native languages are beginning to thrive in the web-based world. Tradition embracing technology. Please comment if you know of other resources like this.
There is a incubator project started for a Yup'ik wikipedia recently: http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/esu (So far no articles, however).
ReplyDeleteIñupiaq has it's own Wikipedia: http://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki
Wow, that's great! Here are some clickable links:
ReplyDeleteYup'ik Wikipedia
Iñupiaq Wikipedia
There is a facebook group for those interested in Gwich'in here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46303709235
ReplyDeleteAbout fourty members, and most of the dialogue in Gwich'in. (though some English words are inserted various places)
There is a web-site featuring historic Orthodox Church publications in Unangan (Aleut), Sugcestun (Alutiiq), Tlingit, and Central Yup'ik at:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.asna.ca/alaskaMost of the texts use the old Alaskan Cyrillic orthographies, and are available for download as PDFs, but there are some downloadable hymns in .mp3 format, as well.