Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

2/1/1978 - 1/31/1981

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$222,896.22 (approved)
$222,896.22 (awarded)


Alaska Native Languages Dictionary Project

FAIN: RT-*0528-78

University of Alaska, Fairbanks (Fairbanks, AK 99775-7500)
Michael E. Krauss (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To prepare for publication definitive dictionaries for ten Alaskan Indian and Eskimo languages, several of which are close to extinction- No accurate dictionary now exists for any of these languages. Funds are needed to enable research staff to organize and edit present data collections into a form suitable for use by both scholars and speakers of the languages.