Maps of Ne-Dene

Amerind, Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut


Amerind, Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut

Source:   Greenberg, Joseph H. 1987. Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 387.
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.

Date Created   January 2010.

Map Description:
This map illustrates Joseph Greenberg's 1987 classification of native languages in the Americas. Greenberg (REF) hypothesizes that there are only three language families in the Americas. This is still a controversial claim.



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Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Language Stocks in Alaska (Sturtevant)



Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Language Stocks in Alaska

Map Creator:   William C. Sturtevant
Source:   Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Historical Maps of the United States.
Data Source:   Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks. The National Atlas of the United States of America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1970.
Date Created:   1967

Map Description:
Illustrated here are the Native American tribes of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands along with their linguistic stocks, as hypothesized by Sturtevant. He notes that tribal distributions depicted are sometimes arbitrary, as the information used to determine them was gathered over a large span of time. He also states that the cultural areas which indicate "minor" tribes that share cultural traits are vaguely classified at times, and that the distribution of many cultural traits does not coincide (Sturtevant).

Other resources related to this project:
Early Major Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Linguistic Stocks (Sturtevant)


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Languages of Canada and Alaska


Languages of Canada and Alaska

Source:   The Proel Map of Canada and Alaska
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.

Date Downloaded:   01/01/2010
Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of languages and language families in Canada and Alaska.
More information on the individual languages and language families can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.




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