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Regular Price $299.95 Buy Info | | TrueTyper and Type-1 fonts in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles, containing the characters for these Athapaskan languages: Hän, Gwich'in, Kaska, Navajo, Northern Tutchone, Southern Tutchone, Tagish, Tanacross, Upper Tanana, Tahltan,... | | | Products Introduction Writing Sample Translation Products Introduction The Tlingit Indians live in the Alaskan Panhandlein and around the cities of Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan, as well as on a number of islands in the Alexander Archipelago. Their language shows a number of similarities with those of the Athapascan family, but its exact linguistic classification remains uncertain. There are about 1,000 speakers. Tlingit is spoken/used in United States of America Language Family Family: North American Indian Subgroup: Athapaskan Copyright © Kenneth Katzner,
The Languages of the World,
Published by Routledge. Writing Sample Translation The Tlingit tribe is one of the Athapascan tribes. It is told in some of the Tlingit legends that during Noah's flood the Athapascan tribe, as the waters subsided, landed in the area of the Arctic Circle. The theory of many writers is that the Athapascans came across the Bering Ice Bridge. This doesn't stand to reason. Why should a family or group of peoplemen, women, children, and older peoplego up North? Just to cross an Ice Bridge that they did not know existed? It was a cold, desolate, uninhabited place, dark during part of the year, without much variety of food and with no protection. This is not to say that a group of people could not land at such a place by accident. But to go there willfully, at great discomfort to the whole group, is not reasonable. |  |